Us History Quotes

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

History is not hatred.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.

I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of history with the lives of ordinary people.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

That something that really concerns me because I have good reason to believe and be hopeful, rather, this was the best posture of any Republican in history towards LGBTQ issues.

We've witnessed history in the making.

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.

I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason.

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years.

I love the Shakespeare history plays, I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

I thought Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history.

The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.