Us History Quotes

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001

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.

[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

Every era in history has needed, and will need, reproductive health services.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.