Us History Quotes

Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it.

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.

Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

Of course, it has never paid much.

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

I try to put my own history in my work.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!

It is a golden chapter in the history of India's maritime security. May INS Vikramaditya, imbibe the radiance of the sun and confidence of victory in each one of us.

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

We teach in our cultural history that the entire universe is a family. So our association with Nature is much deeper and of a very different kind.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.

To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring

People have different ways of interpreting history.

An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE.

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.