Us History Quotes
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.
History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.
On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.
I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.
That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.
Roughly 21,000 new brands are introduced worldwide per year, yet history tells us that more than 90% of them are gone from the shelf a year later.
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.
We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.
I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.
I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world.
History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.
A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.
I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse.
I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I'll run for president.
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.
Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources that we have available to us.
The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.