Us History Quotes

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Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.

A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition.

Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered.

[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a good plan.

It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.

Camillo always say we are on earth to learn. I think I want to teach. I want to teach history so that the world does not have to repeat our mistakes.

If you stay on this path as long as I have, you’ll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil’s waiting to collect his pound of flesh.

The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.

I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay.

They walked off down the hall in the direction of a sign that said Colored Waiting Room. Billie guessed white folks didn't have to wait.

Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.

We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don't generally think about it.

Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.

The battle on the cross reveals just how little Satan understands God

Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love, ' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.

How quickly he fell

I am constantly reminded that we are a products of the choices we make

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.

Don't read their rubbish... Read mine ☺️

Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

Church History is the record of God's gracious, wonderful and mighty deeds, showing how by his Spirit and Word he rules his Church and conquers the world.

If you are kind enough today, history will sing your song and be kind to you.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning

Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.

Create your own path.

People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history.

You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]

The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.

All blood runs red.

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.

On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school

Asparagus is in season.

History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?

The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.

Progress is hard on history.

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

More than half of our history is lost, not because they were not documented, but they had no guardians and protectors.

We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].

You are charismatic. Men are drawn to you. I am drawn to you. And by your size, let alone your skill with weapons, they will be in awe of you.

Isn't one man's truth another man's lie?