Us History Quotes

Bonding over illegal drugs hadn't magically solved our problems,

With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face.

The history of our time must be well-captured and documented.

Stop making excuses and start making history.

Just the perfect peace of nothingness. That's what I believed.

He's the beating pulse of every cause dear to me.

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

They were lucky. They'd been given history.

Facts do not become historical evidence until someone thinks up something for them to prove or disprove.

He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.

[T]here [is] no limit to what might not be achieved by an alliance between an imperial monarchy and revelations, if truly believed to be heaven-sent, of a prophet.

When blondes have more fun, do they know it?

I may have not done History in high school but War cannot be ended by endless talks, only Cold War.

To fall for the notion of a 'double truth' and argue there was one set of truths for reason and another for faith and never the two shall meet made nonsense of the idea of truth itself.

We need a new ethic of place, one that has room for salmon and skyscrapers, suburbs and wilderness, Mount Rainier and the Space Needle, one grounded in history.

History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)

That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights)

I felt a tightening in my chest, a sharp spike of intense sadness-almost like nostalgia, except it was for a life I never had.

Men are the product of their historical experience, limited in their choices by who and where they are in history.

The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy.

As is always the case, events do not conform easily to the generalizations historians produce to try to make sense of the past.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.

I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.

The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

I never want to see umbrellas around me." he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the pope's soldiers. A people who carry umbrellas cannot found an empire.

The world we have created has problems, that can be resolved by rich getting richer, bu by sharing we can. Ron Harris - 2008

The past is rich history. The present is sacred inscription. The future is yet to be written.

At the root of everything lay the passionatedesire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature.

The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.

Han Solo.A legend of the Rebellion against the Empire. Trader, pirate, con man, and fighter extraordinaire. It was hard to believe he was real, Finn thought. Solo was history come to life.

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

We are only writing the history of our time.

Some people want the past repeated and have an interest in making sure we don't remember it.

Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling "primitive" (since this renders us "modern" without having to exert ourselves further to earn this qualification)...

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.

While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.

I have come to realize that in life and politics, there is always more to take into consideration.

History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!

Live your best sacred-life. It is only one-time in history.

For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.

Today is the beginning of new history.