Us History Quotes

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.

My history is my step to future, whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war

No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.

It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there.

A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black..

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

No moment is ever isolatedWith history elsewhere, drilling its stitches.

...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.

I cannot tell whether diamonds appeared in his eyes or mine as the shine of adoration became the icon one sees in history, a Byzantine sparkle, Medieval armor against all odds.

If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you, ’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.

Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.

To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.

Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?” He went on and snorted carelessly. “No wonder you were abducted so easily.

It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

World history is a court of judgment

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.

I die a Queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpepper

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.

One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.

It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.

History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.

History is simply what's behind us.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.

A ruling government can't afford to publish history in a version which lessens its' chance for reelection.

Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial.Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves.

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.

Anything the Austrians could do, the Prussians could do better.

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time.

Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?

Look son, the Human Pig.(shocked)Mother, y-you're inhuman!(deadpan)Another animal could do this?

One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.

marinate your mind

It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.

History honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget.

What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures?