Us History Quotes

People who behave rarely make history.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

History teaches everything, even the future.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of intervention when you don't know its ultimate implications.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.