Us History Quotes

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

History is clarified experience.

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

I tend not to hang with 'the crowd' because I believe that at any given moment in history, the crowd is only standing somewhere because some lone, brave nutjob broke down the walls for them first.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

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

History is littered with dead good men

Partitioning Iraq is inevitable, as shown by history.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

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

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.

One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

History is made by those who say no.

Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

No man knows my history.

Biography is the best form of history.

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.

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.

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

History is the propaganda of the victors.