Us History Quotes
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.
I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.
The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.
Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.
There have been miraculous stories in the history of big football events all around the globe, with host nations achieving fantastic results and even winning titles with the support of their fans.
History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.
I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.
You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.
When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.
We are far from the so called 'end of history,' since the conditions for a sustainable and peaceful development have not yet been adequately articulated and realized.
I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.
I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis.
If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history."
Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.
That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.
It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history, and to establish the cultural meaning of the book, part and whole.
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.
You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.
I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.
Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.
History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.