Cultural Milestones Quotes

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you'd like to witness history.

The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.

Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.

I cannot get over the fact that I was born in 1944. I want to find out as much as I can about that year.

No people ever sees clearly those steps in its own progress, those events in its own life, which future generations will count glorious.

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.