Quotes about History
There is nothing new under the sun. It has been done before.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
From within he produced a crumpled piece of paper, and old-fashioned brass key, a peg of wood with a ball of string attached to it, and three rusty old disks of metal.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
A nation that forgets its past has no future
- Winston Churchill
My administration will be more supportive of the good works done here than any administration in the history of this country because I understand the power of faith, that faith can change lives.
- George W. Bush
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
- Harry S. Truman
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
- John Milton
None of us may ever know the true effects of our prayers this side of death. But we do know this: History belongs to the intercessors.
- John Ortberg
All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.
- John Piper
The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.
- John Piper
Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.
- John Piper