Us History Quotes

Freedom has no history.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

Read about the history of magic.

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

If you look at my history, I'm not gonna let that many people into whatever I'm going through.

The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.

The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.

Blacks have a special history, since they were enslaved and were here as early as the first Americans. I hate to sound like a liberal but these are facts. That makes blacks a special group.

I wouldn't know all that I do about history, if I spent my time watching cartoons and other TV shows.

I never leave anything behind. It's like a history, a chain, a line of life, you just have to move and make new steps, and keep it evolving - but my soul is my soul.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

History is the gradual instant

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

Hillary Clinton has secured her place in history. She is the first woman to lead a major party's quest for the presidency.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

We made, actually, history, because it was the first time ever that doctors could prove that a lifelong Republican has a heart.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.