Quotes of: American-history Keyword

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Paul Harris

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Philip Johnson

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

Paul Mooney

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Paul Simon

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Pierre Schaeffer

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

Penelope Wilton

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

Q'orianka Kilcher

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

Roberto Benigni

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

Ralph Adams Cram

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

Richard Dawkins

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.

Richard Eyre

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.

Richard Flanagan

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

Richard Owen

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

Ricky Skaggs

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Robert Smithson

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

Ronnie Spector

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

Ron Silver

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Robert Anton Wilson

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

Sarah Churchwell

Scotland really is a spectacularly beautiful country with so much history. I always go to Culzean Castle in Ayrshire.

Susan Eisenhower

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

Seth Grahame-Smith