Us History Quotes

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

A racist is a man who believes in history, genetics, and his eyes!

The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [...].

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Journalism is the first draft of history

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

My deep relations with fashion started in Paris in 1980s, when I was appointed head of The Fashion History course at French Esmod fashion school, the biggest and the best in those years in Paris.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.

Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.

Never stop reading. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.

History teaches everything, even the future.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

Lincoln would be just like me. He wouldn't know what the hell to do.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

People who behave rarely make history.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.