Us History Quotes
May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.
There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
There's such a rich history in 'SNL' of political humor, and I think audience members expect that from us.
The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.
The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.
The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'
History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.
Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas.
Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.
When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history.
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.
For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.
Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
