Quotes about History

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

The Old Testament, as you know, is full of pictures of New Testament truth. It is not only a book of history, though it is that, revealing to us the great seed-plots of God's plan of redemption for the human race; it also illustrates many great truths later developed in the New Testament, setting them before us in pictorial language so that we may apply them in our hearts and daily lives.

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

The earth's history over the past several million years is that for every 100,000 years, we go through a dramatic climatic cycle where we get 90,000 years of ice age and 10,000 years of a warm period. I think people today just have the expectation that we deserve a perfectly benign climate forever.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day - and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The greatest man in history was the poorest

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.

There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement.