Us History Quotes

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

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

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.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of 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.

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.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

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.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

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.

...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.

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.

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.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

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.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

War is not women's history.

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.

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.

Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make 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.

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would be the central dynamic of world affairs, and governments.

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

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.

All history is the history of thought.

I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

I'm so very proud to be a part of Playmate history. It's such an honour to be one of 12 girls selected each year to represent Playboy all over the world!

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.