Us History Quotes

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

[Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history.

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

History repeats herself.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.