Quotes about Historical
So there was great rejoicing in Jerusalem, for nothing like this had happened there since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 30:26
A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.
- Mark Twain
I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.
- Herbert Hoover
The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements.
- Jay Parini
As we contemplate Washington's words and place them in his historical circumstances, it occurs to us that a man so concerned for righteousness in his army, and for military chaplains to lead his men in seeking the blessings of heaven, just might have been a praying man himself.
- Peter Lillback
I'd seen for myself how God's power was released after a time of cleansing, and I remembered that in every great historical move of the Spirit I had studied, every revival had experienced times of confession and deep repentance. I could see why, too. The cleansing season had set me freeāthe devil had none of my secret resentments and sins to hold over me anymore.
- Loren Cunningham
Though forgiveness is never easy, and may take generations, what else can break the chains that enslave people to their historical past?
- Philip Yancey
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings
- John F. Kennedy
It's a very good historical book about history.
- Dan Quayle
Goldberg argues that fascism and communism, far from being opposites, are "closely related historical competitors for the same constituents.
- Dinesh D'Souza
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct historical shadows to the generation immediately following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
But the woman who stood knitting looked up steadily, and looked the Marquis in the face.
- Charles Dickens