Us History Quotes
I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.
...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.
Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.
Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members
Congress has mandated an annual report on street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist activity in the military since 2008.
Members of every major street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist group have been found in a number of military branches.
Gang members have joined the military since the mid-1800s.
Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.
Military Veterans have become gang members since the late 1700s.
Today we say goodbye to a proud warrior. As we leave, each of us will take our members of [USS} Midway with us...you guys were the 'Magic.' It was a privilege to sail with you.
The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.
History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.
I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.
Beneath all this he is able to identify as well the dangers of a humanism which shuts out the humane and transcendent horizons and can threaten a new form of the dark night of the soul.
The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.
Some astrophysicists have convinced themselves that the fifth significant figure of the fine structure constant has changed over the past ten billion years.
The dangers of the sea should always take precedenceover the violence of the enemy’Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC
Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.
God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.
I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.
History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.
He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.
History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations.
The power of uncovering India’s biggest concealment is in your hands.
The battle of Panipat was fought for more than what is usually imagined. It was fought by a people in the far south of India, on behalf of the Mughal Emperor, for the defence of India.
Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.
History, ' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.
You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.
Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status
Dreams of innocence are just that
Today’s youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon.
History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.
History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and not just some numbers, time and events.