Us History Quotes

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

And I think right now I'm just enjoying finding something such as One Weekend a Month where I can really resonate with this woman's history and her situation.

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.

As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when I want to reply: "Sir, I would not trust you to write a ransom note."

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

You would think the fury of aerial bombardment would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.

Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.

We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

The South is the region that history has happened to.

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.

How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills?

Relax," Chiron told me. "Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history." "Relax," I said. "I'm very relaxed.

I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.

Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.

America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

Those that innovate the future understand history the best.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

Once you have a history together, it's just another love for life. Everything is easier. It is just easier to live.

And history's fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.

One age is like another for the soul.

A turning point in modern history.

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.

History is too important to be left to the historians.

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.