Us History Quotes
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.
History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.
A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.
It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.
Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.
I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.
The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.
And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.
With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.
all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.
The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.
