Us History Quotes

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

There are no inevitabilities in history

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

The course of history can be changed but not halted.

History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

In this way, history now inscribes itself in real time, in the 'live', in the realm of interactivity. Consequently, history no longer resides in the extension of territory.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

The more history I read, the more everything seems to point to the same thing.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

I study history because I am interested in the future.

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.