Us History Quotes

A waste land lit by holy candles.

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

History says that I'm one of the best pound-for-pound, and I won't stop until I'm number one.

When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

I would love to see the Church on the right side of history.

The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.

I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

History is absolutely my thing.

Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.

My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—" She married a house?

Forgotten history. You, however, are my present. (Varyk) Oh, goody. Do I have to wear a bow? (Fang)

Then why can’t I bully you into procreating? (Wulf) See! I’m the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)

My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.

I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.

The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.

The past isn't real because it's history, and the future isn't because it hasn't happened yet. I like it, it hints at virtual reality, which I think is how we sort of feel about life sometimes.

Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!

Provenance is something very important in jewelry. You want to know who has worn a piece of jewelry and who it has belonged to - it's part of its history, part of its aura.

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

My history defines who I am.

Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.

It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.