Us History Quotes

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

We are at an inflection point in history.

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.

Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

The history of a man is in his character.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

I'm not sure history has ended.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses.

The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

What if this present were the world's last night?

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

When we apologize we end our struggle with history.

Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.

The history of theatre is the history of first nights.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

History is sympathetic to its authors.

America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.