Us History Quotes

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

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.

History paints the human heart.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

There is no history, only histories.

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.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

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.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

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.

The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

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.

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.

The camera is the eye of history.

History is but the polemics of the victor.

The name of Khomeini will always remain in the new chapter of Iranian history.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.

If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews

Where the women go, the culture goes.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.