Us History Quotes

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.

Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?""What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can just ask you.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

History is the stories we tell about the past.

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.

...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.

If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.

countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they've already been around into the distant future.

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

As far back as history records people thinking, thinking peoplehave been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence.

For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.

There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.

The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.

When a thundering horde of drunken Vikings rush a person, it's only natural to flinch.

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.

All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.

If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.

They don’t teach kidnapping at Eton, dad

Oh, it was 1775.” “What?” “1775. The Battle of Bunker Hill.” “Oh.” I laughed. “We learned about it the day we met, ” he added. “Another red-letter day in history.

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

If greatness was easy to attain, everyone’s name would be in history books.

Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian.

Finally liberty has come!

History is the archaeology of the present and future.

America is fascinated by crime.

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

If you want to live like a normal person, you are already part of history.

Christians are called to be history makers on the earth.

If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.

history beats in longer periods than a man's heart

History should be studied but not worshipped.