Us History Quotes

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

Scott Medlock's portrait of 'the shot heard around the world' from the 1935 Masters is still being celebrated as a moment in Golf History. Imagine that!

Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

History is the lies of the victors.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

I don't like dynasty and legacy. But I think there's a period in the U.S. history where Bushes have been in the forefront.

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.

Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.