Us History Quotes

[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.

Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.

I think my history as a coach shows I like players who are gifted technically and have courage when it comes to being in possession of a football. That is a key quality for me.

I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually.

Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.

In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.

My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.

I think we're the shortest relay team in history but we're fast.

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

History teaches that nations do not learn from history.

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.

History gets written by the winners.

Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism.

I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.

In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.

I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.

There's nothing like having a history with someone, when you're in a foreign land.