Us History Quotes

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

This is - it's a sociological experiment in many ways. And so you're seeing the results of what happens when you put a lot of boys in a room looking at art history.

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice.

After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.

With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing.

As chairman of the DNC, [Keith ] Ellison says he would replicate that kind of turnout on a national scale. But we spoke yesterday about some history that could stand in the way.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

I don't want to rewrite history.

It was my dream as a kid was to make history.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

It feels good to be a part of history.

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful. "Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?

History isn’t something you study. It’s something you should just know.

Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook.

Soap operas got nothing on my family history.

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.

I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now - at the highest levels of the federal government.

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.

Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.

There's such a history, and to be here, and to feel that, is really amazing.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.

History! Read it and weep!

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.