Us History Quotes

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy basically.

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.

Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.

Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.

I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

I guess I accidentally became a part of history. Honestly, when you're young and you're a designer, you have a goal, but that is not the kind of goal that you even think it's possible to achieve.

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

There is now a $5 million dollar bounty on Osama bin Laden. Which marks the first time in history there has ever been a bounty on a guy's head who wears Bounty on his head.

In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player during their husband's oppressive regime.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

In France, history is paralyzing.

I write and film history; I don't make it.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

Very often history is a means of denying the past.