Us History Quotes

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

History is merely gossip

History works itself out in the living.

I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

There is simply so much reason to believe the good news of Jesus Christ in history, in Scripture, as well as in our own experience that it would take a leap of faith not to believe in the gospel.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

It's a big deal. ABC and MNF are a big part of NFL history, and it's going to end with the Super Bowl (on ABC). You can't say you're not looking forward to it .

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

There is a history in all men's lives.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

History is His story.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

Our past has gone into history.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.