Us History Quotes

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP.

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.

I want to present a really interesting vision of [Jack] Kirby's characters and environments, as well as dig way, way deeper into the history of the Galactic Rangers.

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig into history and do a story in some period would be great.

The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no one would dare create. They're too mad.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

I sometimes think 'Gordon' must be the most bootlegged album in U.S history, since it sold only 200,000 copies in the country, yet 800,000 kids know the words to every song.

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.

I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.

Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

They say people who don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

Desire has no history.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected.

What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

All history is the history of unintended consequences.

History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.