Us History Quotes

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

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

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

Never in history has distance meant less.

There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

A radiant fellowship of the fallen.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.