Us History Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
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.
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.
We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.
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.
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.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
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.
I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.
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.
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
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.
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.
I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God
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.
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.
History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.
Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.
Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.
Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours.
Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.
History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.
The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.