#history books

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#chambers #gas #gas chambers #germany #grandfathers

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. ↗

— David Strathairn

#film #history #history books #libraries #now

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#american people #belong #books #covering #every

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#another #books #doing #fabricated #going

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#books #feature #history #history books #losers

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#against #because #books #cavalry #fair

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#history #history books #i #lot #read

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#books #history #history books #i #i think

It is over with; I am in the history books. ↗

— Michael Moorer

#books #history #history books #i #i am