Us History Quotes

Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

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.

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

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

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

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

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.

History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

History is everything that has ever happened.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.

If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.