Us History Quotes

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

History shows that anything conducive to our national stability is good.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history

There is room in history for all of us.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something...stay positive!

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.