Us History Quotes

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.

History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights.

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.