Quotes About History

The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament)

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication

He imagined many years must have passed since a jongleur had chosen to pinch that ample backside.

She recalled Duncan telling her that his ancestor had a girlfriend in the village and used the tunnel to sneak out and see her. "Well, Great-Great-Grandfather," she said, smiling, "you were a naughty boy, weren't you?

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

This is a unique scandal in Italian football history - with Juventus as the victims of an injustice.

We've learned," he says, "that over the history of our planet, Earth and life have co-evolved. Changes in the environment affect life, and changes in life can transform the environment. This is a lesson to ponder as we think about our future as well as our past." —Andrew H. Knoll PhD— From—Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America (Life of the Past).****couldn't find this title****

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

the smoke of Patrick Hamilton hath infected all those on whom it blew.

On the death of Leo X. in 1521, Adrian, the inquisitor general was elected pope. He had laid the foundation of his papal celebrity in Spain. "It appears, according to the most moderate calculation, that during the five years of the ministry of Adrian, 24,025 persons were condemned by the inquisition, of whom one thousand six hundred and twenty were burned alive.

John Huss was born at Hussenitz, a village in Bohemia, about the year 1380.

destroyed above 12,000,000 of souls upon the continent of America, in the space of forty years.

A. D. 1560, pope Pius the Fourth, ordered all the protestants to be severely persecuted throughout the Italian states, when great numbers of every age, sex, and condition, suffered martyrdom.

He was the first who termed the pope Antichrist.

In Book II, Section-104, of his celebrated History, Herodotus states :—"For my part I believe the Colchi to be a colony of Egyptians, because like them they have black skins and frizzled hair." (See any English translation of THE HISTORY of HERODOTUS.

the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began ...

Myths aren't fairy tales or legends—they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries...

maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...

He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose.

As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things—sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in mountains.…