Us History Quotes

The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

History after all is the true poetry.

History is the new poetry.

History is the distillation of rumour.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

We might have been a free and great people together.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

I love the history of the sport, I love the culture that surrounds it, and I never dreamed I'd become a fanatic. I'm such a fanatic now that I'm committed to competing.

Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

I am proud of Hillary Clinton because she has been and is a great history maker - in everything she has done.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

You know, throughout the world, throughout history, when countries get rich, they stop having kids.

Every weekend in history has worked for movies if the movie connects.

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor

The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far and wide very quickly.

We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions - every villain is a hero in his own mind.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.

This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.