Us History Quotes
But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.
History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.
Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.
The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers
History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.
War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution.
The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe only one thing: that by his act he will change the course of history.
We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.