Quotes of: American-history Keyword

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Barry Schuler

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.

Gustav Stresemann

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

Jodie Foster

I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

Maurice Hinchey

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

Park Geun-hye

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

Rand Paul

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Steven Levy

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

Lawrence Summers

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely helped us to become more aware of this Filipinone...

Culture and History

A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man.” -Nellie Bly

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

School Can Wait

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

Mitch Landrieu

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil libertie...

James McGreevey

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about Amer...

Ken Calvert

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our America...

Cory Booker

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 amn...

Colman Domingo

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

Dick Gregory

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all o...

George Will

In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you...

Homaro Cantu