Us History Quotes

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.

I do consider myself part of black history.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

The transcendental promises a vacation from history.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Throughout history, ideas need patrons.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

If Hillary Clinton wins the race, she will win it with the most diverse coalition that anybody's ever been elected by in presidential history.

I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo.

Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!

But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

Science is taught like the history of science, and it's boring. Doing science fair, anything that's project-based learning, that involves field trips, that's really valuable.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!