Us History Quotes

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 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.

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.

History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

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.

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

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

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.

I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history.

The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

History is the key to citizenship.

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.

If elected, Hillary Clinton will be the least popular president to be elected in modern history. So there's going to be very little incentive on the part of Republicans to work with her.

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.