Us History Quotes

Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.

History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.

History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very violent labor history, much worse than in Europe.

The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.

The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed studying history. Taking college classes was just something I wanted to do. It gave me such a feeling of satisfaction.

I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family history.

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

As an actor, you have to have your history.

History is an accumulation of error.

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

History is and should be a science.

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.

Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see it in almost everything that is said and done.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.

Art is the most important way of recording history.

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.

Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?

The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.