Us History Quotes
No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending
The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.
In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.
Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.
If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising.
It is difficult to discuss... history.. it is more difficult to talk about today.. simple things…
Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history.
History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.
A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
