Us History Quotes

It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

I'm a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of peace are increasing daily inside Israel.

Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

History is written by those who hang heroes.

The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.