Us History Quotes

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

It is always our objective to have close ties with the United States. We're at a transitional period of our history and we're on a road to reform.

The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

History is a bucket of ashes.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

All history was at first oral.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak.

And the rest is history,' I said. Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now.

Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere... In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings.

Well, everybody has a history.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize that you should have known.

History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.

An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or 'correcting' them according to our modern ideals.