Us History Quotes

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the biggest fight in history.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

Web standards keep you out of the dustbin of history.

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

The Youngest World Heavyweight Champion in History!

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

The white race is the cancer of human history.

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

Every past is worth condemning.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

What's shaking, chiefy baby?

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.