Quotes About History

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best series of shows that has been on television.

If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.

In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.

History belongs to everyone. I don't think you have to give up scholarly standards. But I also don't think you want to write something that is impenetrable. You try as hard as you can to be readable.

Because of the standing in society, because women's basketball does not draw the interest that major professional sports leagues or men's college basketball draw, Geno Auriemma is never going to be recited by the sports fan at-large as the greatest coach in history.

Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.

I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.

I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country.

Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch.

Being a France is great from a heritage standpoint.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.

We now enter a new age of American history, and the question to be answered is this: Will we restore the republic our forefathers created, or will we allow it to be annihilated by those who hate America, its history, and all it stands for?

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.