Top 1200 American History Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

The other night, President Bush's press conference was pre-empted by 'American Idol.' You know the difference between President Bush and 'American Idol?' See, on 'American Idol,' the one with the most votes wins.

There might be people who have never even tweeted before who are just working on their great American tweet. It will be so good that we'll all have to stop Twitter right away. I would like to write the great American tweet. I don't think the great American tweet has been written yet. We'd know.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

In Afghanistan, we have had a history of very strong women, and we need to reclaim that history and talk about it.

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

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in order to tell a vast story of a people's reinvention of itself and of a nation-the first complete history of the Great Black Migration from start to finish, north, east, west.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

In North Korea the math book says, you know, there are four American bastards. You kill two of them. Then how many American bastards left to kill. a And as a child I had to say, "Two American bastards." And that was my education.

When you come up against a big, powerful football nation, you are playing against history. When you talk about street football, you are talking about South American players who have grown up with nothing.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates jobs?

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography.

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.

I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for the American cinema. I always knew that I was going to leave Sweden.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.