Us History Quotes

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.

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.

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

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.

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.

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.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.

America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.