Us History Quotes

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

Our best history is still poetry.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.

They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.

Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie.

I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I'm only going to have to run.

Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation.

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.

When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

Art is far feebler than necessity.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things and learn about art history and learn about people that came before me.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances, Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.

I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.

The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.