Us History Quotes
They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.
The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."
With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them. I'm a history nut and I love to immerse myself in the research.
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin does have a history of not respecting boundaries.
Hillary Clinton is now driving from New York to Iowa. It's been called the least-exciting spring break trip in history.
i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away
For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.
Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.
He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
I did Call of Duty Modern Warfare as Gaz, then I did Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games.
Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.
The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.
Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.
I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.
Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.
The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.
The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.
The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.
Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.
I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.
We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.
It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.
In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.
I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.
The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.
The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost.
Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.
An integral part of any best friend's job is to immediately clear your computer history if you die.