Quotes about History
Still — if I have read religious history aright — faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords, and it is possible — thank Heaven! — to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings. The
- George Eliot
Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.
- John Foxe
Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
- Joe Biden
Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
the world groaned and was astonished to find itself Arian
- Saint Jerome
The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki devastated the oldest center of Christianity in the country. This, of course, further complicated the Japanese views of Christianity: how could the West, which "represented" Christianity in the eyes of the Japanese, destroy a city that had such a rich history of Christian culture and a large Christian population? This point will be discussed at greater length in chapter seven.
- Samuel Lee
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
- Mark Twain
It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.
- Andy Andrews
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
- Abraham Lincoln
It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?
- Desmond Tutu
The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.
- Jennifer Lopez
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower