National History Day Quotes

#1. It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living.

Debasish Mridha

#2. The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Aberjhani

#3. Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

Truman Capote

#4. We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not a day of national mourning for us. We must leave history behind us and look forward.

Galarrwuy Yunupingu

#5. September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror's sting,
rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles' wings.
from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001

Aberjhani

#6. You're different, I'll give you that. They didn't break you, but don't
think you can fight me. You won't win.

Pepper Winters

#7. Those who wait for the right time to act on their life are doing nothing.

Santosh Kalwar

#8. With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Jon Meacham

#9. I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'

Bernard Tschumi

#10. Your father? What he do? He no plumber, is he? I no trust plumbers. Or Disney World. Working with mice, very shameful.

Ana Huang

#11. We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.

Aberjhani