Us History Quotes

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.

Human rights takes history out of justice.

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.

I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth.

Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

Art history is always changing too.

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.

There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.

The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

My administration will be the most transparent in history

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

You make history when you do business.

Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

Completeness is rare in history.

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.