Us History Quotes

My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it even more interesting.

The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.

Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

History punishes those that come late to it.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Grace can and does have a history.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

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.

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.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.