Us History Quotes

He opened his eyes to half-cast. With a low rumble he lifted her onto his hips. "Take me to heaven, lassie. For no one but ye can cool the fire thrumming in my blood.

Unbridled passion with an incredibly hot seven hundred-year-old Highlander in the middle of the night? Mm Yeah. Bring it on.

There is always a danger that those who are less obviously and traditionally important, prominent, or powerful will be left out of the history of human experience.

[Connor to Major Wentworth, grandson of King George]"My fathers were lairds in the Highlands when yours were still farmin' kale back in Germany!

Sarah turned around and there standing just a few feet from her was the legend himself, and he was far from disappointing.

Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her dear dog a bone.Though the cupboard was bare, When she focused elsewhereHer heart overflowed with fun!

Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.

People kill very important people to change the season in their life.

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.

The main difference between a lawyer and a prostitute is that a prostitute won't screw you after you're dead.

I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.

And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability.

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it.

Create history and write your own.

Through enjoyment we endure.

Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn

I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.

Rumors are the children of truth.

They would never forget the war. The world wouldn’t let them, and neither would history.

They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason...

I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.

Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.

When you travel, learn the history of the place.

GWGs [girls with glasses] aren't happy being nomads

He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.

A hostage?""They used the word slave, but isnt' it the same thing? Isn't that what you'd call it if someone stole me and put me in a house and wouldn't let me leave? Isn't it?

In history, the bleeding from arbitrary beatings, forced breedings, and choked-heatbreathing could almost be withstood by soul-feeding songs sung, or listlessly hummed just to go on.

Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings.

A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.

The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.

I was born in the age of "alas".

Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside.

...environment scarcely recognises a political frontier.

Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution.

The need to control others as a prerequisite for male agency presupposed self-control. That imperative, in turn, included both the physical and emotional dimensions of a man’s bodily self.

Banshee cries?”“You know, those creatures that cry really loud when someone from an important Irish family is about to die?

A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.