Us History Quotes

A lot of things in history change over time.

We can rewrite history all you want, but the simple fact is that we're in a much more unstable place because America pulled back.

I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

A successful solution to the client's design needs requires a collaboration of my skills, talents and knowledge with the client's information base, history in their industry and personality.

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

Donald Trump believed that the whole history of trade agreements, most of which I've supported over the years, have not been effective, and I've come to believe he's right.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.

The authors of all our misfortune.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

Loving fathers give their children a sense of their history.

Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a collection of 'thou shall' and 'thou shalt nots!' All those elements are part of Scripture.

God does give us the history of his people.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was why we used a historical calligraphy scroll come to life.

I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.

The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.

Paul Konerko is one of the greatest players in White Sox history, not only for his strength and performance on the field, but also for his heart and leadership off the field.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

I can't imagine anybody who has spoken to more, or presented more non-famous people on television in the history of the world.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites)

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?