Us History Quotes

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.

What's scary is that Donald Trump has his own sordid history when it comes to discrimination - in housing, in particular.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials.

Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

History is not what happened but what is written down

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.