Quotes about History

You can fool history sometimes, but you can't fool the memory of your intimates.

History is not good news or bad news, it's just one big story unreeling. There are no small parts, only small actors.

Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.

Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

But let my due feet never fail to walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; casting a dim religious light.

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.