Quotes About History

I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back . . . I can only say; God Save Ireland!

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

God does give us the history of his people.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the poison?

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys.

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

The good old days are now.

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.