34 Quotes by Richard White

Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it is familar why revist it? The past should be so strange that you wonder how you and people you know and love could come from such a time.

History is the enemy of memory.

A European visitor in the 1880s remarked that the only sense not offended by American cooking was hearing.

...It was no accident that some of the first bureaucracies took shape in the West: the National Forest Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (which gradually took modern form as the older Indian Service sank beneath its long heritage of fraud and corruption), and the U.S. Geological Service. Mythologized as the heatland of individualism, the West became the kindergarten of the modern American state.

When I was a kid growing up and my dad owned the drug store, it stopped dead on Labor Day. That was it. People left, and you didn't see them again until Memorial Day. There was no Columbus Day, no Thanksgiving, no New Year's Day. There was none of that.

Whenever we get into penalty trouble we're calling on Ashley and Jessica all the time. They're excellent on the penalty kill.

She's been hurt, and this is the first seven-inning game she's pitched in a month. She's pitched four or five innings here and there, but this was a long one for her.

I think it's high time for younger people to get in. When you're 78, why that's getting up there pretty good. But I've enjoyed my stay on the board. I think we've done a good job. We've built lots of new schools and we've got a good administration.

I thought we played better tonight than we did the other night when we only beat them 3-2. THey came out with an attitude like they wanted to take care of business, and they did that in the first and fifth innings.