History Quotes
-
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
-
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
-
I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.
-
As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition effort to help them create a democratic government and rebuild their country.
-
I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.
-
One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
-
A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.
-
The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.
-
'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.
-
When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
-
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
-
Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.
-
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
-
People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?
-
In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.
-
'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
-
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
-
The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.
-
When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.
-
Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.
-
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.
-
History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.
-
Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
-
You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.
