Quotes About History

The primary witnesses to Christmas are the accounts of Matthew and Luke. They were written as history, though for two different audiences, each with its own culture and conventions for preserving history. Matthew, the early records tell us, wrote originally in Hebrew for a Jewish-Christian audience. Luke wrote for Greek-speaking Gentiles and Jews.

Why has God done the things that he has done in history? One word: Love.

Wherever you set foot—on a street in Manhattan as you dodge traffic; on the soft, freshly turned earth of a Hudson Valley farm; on the kelpy tide line below a Maine cottage; or in the pine woods and palmetto thickets of the Carolina Low Country—do not forget that this was once frontier.

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

I, for my share, cannot understand," continued she, "how men have made themselves believe that God speaks to us through books and histories. The man to whom the universe does not reveal directly what relation it has to him, whose heart does not tell him what he owes to himself and others, that man will scarcely learn it out of books, which generally do little more than give our errors names.

Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose ourselves in the distant past and strive with might and main to recall and restore what is irrevocably lost.

The most dangerous of all books, so far as the history of the world is concerned, is indubitably the Bible, because no other book has brought so much good and so much evil to the human race.

Nichts Bessers weiß ich mir an Sonn- und Feiertagen Als ein Gespräch von Krieg und Kriegsgeschrei, Wenn hinten, weit, in der Türkei, Die Völker auf einander schlagen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Esa joya ha rodado por tantas manos que el baño de oro está bastante desgastado.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism with faith.

L'Eglise a un bon estomac, elle a dévoré des pays entiers sans jamais cependant avoir d'indigestion. L'Eglise seule, mes chères dames, peut digérer un bien mal acquis.

To break up the Roman Empire and to give a new order to the world is the first and principle historical task of the Germans.

Ignorant people raise questions which were answered by the wise thousands of years ago

He whose vision cannot cover History's three thousand years, Must in outer darkness hover, Live within the day's frontiers.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth

Anyone who cannot give an account to oneself of the past three thousand years remains in darkness, without experience, living from day to day.

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren Sich weiss Rechenschaft zu geben, Bleib im Dunkeln, unerfahren, Mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

Wohl dem, der seiner Väter gern gedenkt, Der froh von ihren Taten, ihrer Größe, Den Hörer unterhält und still sich freuend Ans Ende dieser schönen Reihe sich Geschlossen sieht!

For me to read a book is still And always will be quite a thrill. For me to read a book is like A boy when he rides his new two wheel bike. And when a bird comes north in spring It's natural for her to sing. I like to read books of poems and history Books of fiction and of mystery. And what is more, I'll read until I'm grown And then I'll write books of my own.

Almost every generation believes that art and music and the work ethic and you name it aren't as good as they used to be ... historians have noted how the belief that society is changing for the worse is a constant going back thousands of years.

To him the Bible was written not by God, but by inspired people, drawing from both history and experience, who sought to understand better the larger meaning of life and death.

Stevenson and Sparkman were candidates for august offices, Nixon said. They needed to "come before the American people as I have and make a complete financial statement as to their financial history," he said. "And if they don't, it will be an admission that they have something to hide." There