Us History Quotes

History is all explained by geography.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves.

And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .