Us History Quotes

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.

Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.

A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.

History is written by winners.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history.

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

An old novel has a history of its own.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.

One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history

You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.