Us History Quotes

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.

I counted them all out and I counted them all back.

History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

I think Russia has already turned the toughest pages in its history. We're only moving forward now, only get stronger.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god’s dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

Seahawks beat Cardinals, 58-0. If Patriots beat Texans, 58-0, it will be first time in NFL history there were two 58-0 games in same week.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

I guess I was a conspiracy theorist when I said "no weapons in Iraq." Now they call that history.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

History is the great propagator of doubt.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.