Us History Quotes
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.
It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.
Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.
The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.
What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.
Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
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 no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.
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.
One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!
If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It's a real thing. It's not always referring to ancient history.
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.
I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history.
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.