Us History Quotes

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history

History is not just cruel. It is witty.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.

I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit.

I will repeat history over and over. I'm one of those girls where I would just rather beat it into the ground than go through the rest of my life wondering how it would have worked out.

I think some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time and I think that's what we are.

Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history.

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don't tend to talk.

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.

Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve.

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

History's greatest monster.

That whole country, Malaysia has a history of telling other countries back off, we'll do our business. They're pretty stubborn bunch of people. So they will do what they have to do.

When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.

We're in a political depression - a great political depression

It's funny how the history of Jeb Bush is going to be rewritten.

History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.