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Quotes About Annals

Name calling may be acceptable in political circles but it has no place in the language of science, indeed what is happening in the annals of global warming smacks of Macarthyism complete with witch hunts.
~ DAVID BELLAMY
It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven. What a weapon! Religious faith deserves a chapter to itself in the annals of war technology, on an even footing with the longbow, the warhorse, the tank, and the hydrogen bomb.
~ Richard Dawkins
People kept on longing for meaning and hope, but the annals of the past are a muddy story of chaos only.
~ Richard Flanagan
In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.
~ Vito Fossella
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
~ Howard Nemerov
Whatever final judgment awaits 'Bush v. Gore' in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I think that Curt Swan, when he did Superman for the longest time, became the definitive Superman artist, and everybody got it. That made him very, very special in the annals of comic books.
~ Neal Adams
But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity
~ G. B. Caird
Since Divine is dead, the poet may sing her, may tell her legend, the Saga, the annals of Divine. The Divine Saga should be danced, mimed, with subtle directions. Since it is impossible to make a ballet of it, I am forced to use words that are weighed down with precise ideas, but I shall try to lighten them with expressions that are empty, hollow and invisible.
~ Jean Genet
The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the weapon, the ax of rock.
~ Daniel Levitin
The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.
~ Alice Morse Earle
The history of Courcelles is one well known within the annals of chivalry. Across these fields the Merovingian kings fought their battles. From this castle did the Lord of Courcelles sally forth on Crusade with his retinue of knights. And it was here, as legend has it, that the Demoiselle of Courcelles, the first of that name, Lady Melisande, brought the blessed Dame of Orleans, none other than Jeanne d'Arc, and besought her lord to follow the saint into battle for the glory of France.
~ Lauren Willig
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!
~ John Pringle Nichol
Mary Surratt, who ran a boardinghouse where Booth colluded with other conspirators, went down in historical annals as the first woman ever executed by the federal government.
~ Ron Chernow
Water is life. It is one of the earth's greatest resources. History is well documented on the ways of water. Wars have been fought over it, societies have risen up, societies have been removed, all throughout the annals of time.
~ Douglas P Fish
Writing in 1837, one Michigan reformer called the nation's rate of immigration "the boldest experiment upon the stability of government ever made in the annals of time.
~ Jill Lepore
7. CCR; Robert of Reading; Murimuth; Dugdale, Monasticon; Annales
~ Alison Weir
In the annals of time, how many people had walked our earth as a sniper?
~ Ed Kugler
And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.
~ Edward Everett
History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
~ Antoine Rivarol
Then he's no use to me. I'm a practical man." "Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime. Everything comes in circles—even Professor Moriarty.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
No one will sing songs in our memory. We are the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. Our traditions and memories live only in these Annals. We are our own mourners.
~ Glen Cook
Back to the company. Back to business. Back to the parade of years. Back to the annals. Back to fear.
~ Glen Cook
No one will sing songs in our memory. We are the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. Our traditions and memories live only in these Annals. We are our only mourners. It is the Company against the world. Thus it has been and ever will be.
~ Glen Cook