Us History Quotes

Golf is something I love. It's been a part of my family's history.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.

You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.

History takes time. History makes memory.

I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.

No matter what Donald Trump says, he has deep socialist leanings. He's a nationalist and a populist. And throughout history, whenever you combine those three things it never ends well.

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

History has been the history of warfare.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

The history of one is the history of all.

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.

Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather.... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.

Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together.

I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over.

The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.

The biggest weapon of mass destruction in history is the AK-47, not Iranian nuclear weapons.

Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to wander around in.

Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.