Us History Quotes

History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

News is history shot on the wing.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

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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.

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.

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

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

I want to go down in history.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast?

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

Science is our century's art.

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.

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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

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.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

All human history moves towards one great goal

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.