Us History Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life, I love the food, I love the people, I love the attitudes of Italians.

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: 'Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.'

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!