Quotes of: American-history Keyword

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

John Brockman

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read." ( , NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

David McCullough

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

Ben Elliot

Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.

James Rozoff

History had a way of playing cruel tricks on those who chased it.

Dan Brown

If you are kind enough today, history will sing your song and be kind to you.

Debasish Mridha

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Soren Kierkegaard

Captain Sharp: It's been proven by history: all mankind makes mistakes.

Moonrise Kingdom

Senator Charles Palantine: We meet at a crossroads in history. No longer will the wrong roads be taken.

Taxi Driver

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

Charlton Heston

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

Alfred Adler

History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --

Abba Solomon Eban

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

Auliq Ice

How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!

Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

Bolt actions speak louder than words.

Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

The Closing of the American Mind

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

The Closing of the American Mind

Most cowgirls are natural storytellers, their art honed by years of practice. . . . It serves as entertainment; it also preserves the humor and value of a unique way of life.

Cowgirls: Women of the American West

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries