Us History Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

Your history doesn't need to dictate your destiny

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing.

I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

This is unparalyzed in the state's history.

I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

I am notorious. I will go down in history as another Lady Hamilton.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.