Us History Quotes

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

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

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.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise.

[The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.

Everything may happen.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.

Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.

History is rooted in the future

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

History is the memory of a nation

There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.

It's true that history seems denser than it really is.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

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.

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

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.

The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

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

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

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

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