Great American Historical Quotes

#1. Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Bruce Babbitt

#2. A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.

Patricia Hampl

#3. In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each time anyone moved

Kiera Cass

#4. Challenge plot, the Connection plot, and the Creativity plot.

Chip Heath

#5. When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves ... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

Nicholas D'Agosto

#6. For whom do you cry, my son?" the Great Spirit asked.
"I do not know."
"Yes, you do.

P.J. Parker

#7. How can you turn yourself into something you want to be when you're alredy what you are?

David Almond

#8. Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle .

Eric Hobsbawm

#9. The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots.

Mohammad Marandi

#11. IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created. If you don't write at all you won't know how "great" that simple book can be.

Shiree McCarver