Us History Quotes

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good singer, but was a good friend. He will be missed by many.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

The first rough draft of history.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

History is one damn thing after another.

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.