Us History Quotes

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.

I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history.

I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

I normally ignore the History Channel.

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there is more to be done and it is America who will lead the way.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

This is a movement like nobody's ever seen in this country before. Even our enemies admit that. We're going to make history together.

There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly admire.

I had a TV show called 'The Apprentice' and it's one of the most successful reality shows in the history of television. And now I'm doing something else.

This [2016] is not simply another four-year election. This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we the people reclaim control over our government.

When it comes time to default, they’re not going to remember any of the Republicans’ names. They are going to remember in history books one name, and that's Obama.

President Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country.

We have the most incompetently worked trade deals ever negotiated probably in the history of the world, and that starts with NAFTA. And now they want to go TPP, one of the great disasters.

This is one of the worst deals ever made by any country in history. The deal with Iran will lead to nuclear problems.

We rebuilt China.The money they took out of the United States is the greatest theft in the history of our country. The money they've taken out, the jobs they've taken out, the base.