Quotes about Records
As for the rest of the acts of Jotham, along with all his wars and his ways, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
— 2 Chronicles 27:7
His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
— 2 Chronicles 33:19
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
— Ezra 2:62
These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
— Ezra 8:1
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
— Nehemiah 7:64
That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
— Esther 6:1
As ages passed, people learned from their ancestors. The more accurately you knew the position and movements of the Sun and Moon and stars, the more reliably you could predict when to hunt, when to sow and reap, when to gather the tribes. As precision of measurement improved, records had to be kept, so astronomy encouraged observation and mathematics and the development of writing.
— Carl Sagan
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
— Alexander Hamilton
There is no demand for Frank Sinatra Jr. records. There never has been.
— Frank Sinatra Jr.
Every man who records his illusions is providing data for the genuinely scientific psychology which the world still waits for.
— George Bernard Shaw
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.
— Samuel Johnson
But I wanted someone who was more than just intelligent and educated. I was searching for an expert who wouldn't gloss over nuances or blithely dismiss challenges to the records of Christianity
— Lee Strobel