Us History Quotes

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in.

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.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

History is the teacher of life

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.

I have a long history of being told I have no rhythm, and of people saying 'I've heard chickens sing better than that'.

Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

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

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

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

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.

Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.

History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

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

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

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

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

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

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.

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

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.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.

[Ronald Reagan] called the image of [George] Washington praying on his knees in Valley Forge "the most sublime image in American history."

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

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

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

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.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.