Us History Quotes
If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.
Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.
We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.
Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.
The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.
The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.
Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.
The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.
People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore.
As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.