Us History Quotes

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.

The Thames is liquid history.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Everybody knows we're entitled to one Jerusalem. History reveals very simply that this is our land from the days of the Bible.

It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

No time in history has the Church of Jesus Christ gone down!

Not a stone but has its history.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

One must overcome history by dogma.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it.

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

Destiny and history are untidy.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

I do not love fiction, I love history.