Us History Quotes
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.
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.
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!
I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.
You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.
Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.
Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
The history of media is the market share of advertising dollars has followed.. albeit with a lag.
I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.
Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?
And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.
I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.
History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.
That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation.
I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
