Us History Quotes

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

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

You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.

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.

As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

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.

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.

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

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.

History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't.

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

Biography is the best form of history.

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

No man knows my history.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.

My first job with a network was General Hospital, and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

History is the memory of a nation

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

History is the teacher of life

If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.