Us History Quotes

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Patterns repeat themselves in history

But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

Just a little off the top!"- A. Boleyn

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.