Quotes About History

First, while direct access to the new sources from other perspectives has opened up our understanding of the historical debate, it doesn't necessarily alter significantly the resultant history.

The gospel, centered profoundly for Jesus in the announcement that the reign of God is at hand, is eschatological in character. It pulls back the veil on the coming reign of God, thereby revealing the horizon of the world's future. The gospel portrays the coming of Jesus, and particularly his death and resurrection, as the decisive, truly eschatological event in the world's history.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time. This difference makes finding latitude child's play, and turns the determination of longitude, especially at sea, into an adult dilemma—one that stumped the wisest minds of the world for the better part of human history.

Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.

To wit, John Harrison served as the son, grandson, brother, and uncle of one Henry Harrison or another, while his mother, his sister, both his wives, his only daughter, and two of his three daughters-in-law all answered to the name Elizabeth.

John "Longitude" Harrison was born March 24, 1693, in the county of Yorkshire, the eldest of five children.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

In the words of a very famous dead person, "A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test."

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rhythmbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

It was thinner than a portrait painter in Constantinople...

tous les mondes ne suivent pas le même chemin, mais l'apparition du langage précède toujours l'âge des légendes. L'apparition de l'écriture marque sa fin. Wallie

the Romans were one of the first to also place leaders behind their men in an open order of battle.

The military and the politicians have been the same people for all but the most recent part of human history, and we know that the victor writes the history books.

the rate at which we are trying to kill or seriously injure each other, might be at the highest levels in peacetime history.

Blood of the Martyrs The quotations on the facing page present two opposing viewpoints, both by Catholics. Only one is right. We learn the truth from John's vision and from history. The woman astride the beast is "drunken with the blood of the

The German root word for "debt" is the same as for "guilt.

For Marx, history is the story of a constant dialectical struggle, not between abstract Hegelian ideas but between all too real classes and economic forces. This is why his philosophy is sometimes called Dialectical Materialism

Knowledge is a dynamic cultural and historical process, not some timeless product waiting to be discovered "out there".