Quotes of: American-history Keyword

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

Marco Rubio

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Quentin Tarantino

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

Richard Lamm

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Salman Rushdie

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

Walter Jon Williams

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

Bao Dai

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

Eugen Weber

[A]s Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography, wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

John Smith

Carl Fogaty: You almost believe in your own crap, don't you?

A History of Violence

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur!

Anonymous

In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying to a modern thinker - the inventor of analytic geometry, no less - a primitive tradition that extends back not only ...

Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

I'm a golfer not a history major.

Bubba Watson

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Sejarah bukanlah apa yang terjadi. Sejarah hanyalah apa yang dituturkan sejarawan kepada kita.

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.

The Address Of Happiness

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

A History of Western Philosophy

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

A History of Reading

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

A History of Reading

Let the ravioli simmer for the time it takes to say two Lord's Prayers.

A History of Food in 100 Recipes