Top 1200 American History Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

What happened last week doesn't matter. That's history. You have to make history every day.

Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact that artists weren't able to make a living from their work hasn't detracted from the quality of that work. Charles Ives was the second greatest composer in American history and he worked in insurance his whole life.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, "We're not going to harm you. We're American soldiers."

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

I'm from the American West. We have forest fires out there. And some of the worst forest fires in our history, the most damage were caused when we pulled the fire crews off the line too early. And so we're going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy - ISIS. There's no room for complacency on this.

I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and harvests, the prayers that are sent upward for healing and peace, and the welcoming of children into our families, are all reasons for us to keep moving forward with optimism.

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.

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

The TV show 'How It's Made' brings the intricate details of assembly lines to numerous North American living rooms. But if the series were to ever branch into exposing the secrets of music production, Colin Stetson's 'New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges' would make for a mind-bending episode.

It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men.

Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.

American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal. As you are in this job and in the work, you begin to see, though, that in the long run, both American economic interests and American national security are better served when there are other decent countries in the world who are both your allies and even when your adversaries are acting more decently.

In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

The Royal Rumble is rich with history and one of the most popular events in WWE history.

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

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

United are special because of their history. They have so much history on a world level.

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

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

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

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.

The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American Left who hates Christendom... What I'm talking about is onward American soldiers. What we're talking about are core American values.

The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn't just relegated to the Southern region; it permeates the history of our nation. It's not to say that we haven't made progress. Obviously we have with our first African American president, and I never thought that would happen in my lifetime.

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

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

I'm trying to make history. I've always put history above money.