Quotes about History
The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.
- Peter Kreeft
There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
- RC Sproul
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
- Ellen Glasgow
Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
- George Lucas
History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.
- George W. Bush
It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.
- George W. Bush
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
- JM Coetzee
One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
- Jimmy Carter
If she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
- John Updike
All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
- Peter Kreeft