Quotes of: American-history Keyword

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Gilbert Murray

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

Henry Rollins

The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.

Maureen Chiquet

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

Michael Scheuer

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

Philip Zimbardo

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

Demetri Martin

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

Ben Bernanke

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

Logan Lerman

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Jon Meacham

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

Yvette Clarke

In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.

Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.

Kevin Rudd

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

Madeleine M. Kunin

STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.

Peter Capaldi

The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

Adam Hamilton

History is yet to show us a person who stumbled across happiness while walking on the negative path.

Edmond Mbiaka

History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them.

Faisal Khosa

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

Charles J. Shields

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

Haruki Murakami

The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END

Iain M. Banks