Quotes About History

God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.

Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.

I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It's been an incredible thing.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that.

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.