American history Quote by Patricia Highsmith

The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

— Barbara Holland

The interesting thing was we never talked about pottery. Bernard [Leach] talked about social issues; he talked about the world political situation, he talked…

— Warren MacKenzie

“Yes, the Americans and the British were alike in some things. They were surface people, skimming over past history, picking out the interpretations that…

— Helen MacInnes

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

— Anonymous

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

— George Burns

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

— Zhou Enlai

The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies,…

— Kevin Brownlow

“had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more…

— Charles Dickens

“of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have…

— Charles Dickens

I find diplomatic histories the dullest of histories.

— Erik Larson

“Our history teacher had the most boring voice in the world and no teaching skils to speak of. Every single class, he read aloud…

— Claire Farrell

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

— Ved Mehta