Quotes about History
Natural gas followed a similar trajectory. In 1900, it accounted for 1 percent of the world's energy. It took seventy years to reach 20 percent. Nuclear fission went faster, going from 0 to 10 percent in 27 years.
— Bill Gates
When you hold on to your history you do it at the expense of your destiny.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The power of belief alone could change the course of history.
— Ted Dekker
Everything was really a story, penned or thought or acted out at some time by someone.
— Ted Dekker
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
— Nancy Pearcey
Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.
— Ben Stein
Architecture is life, or at least life itself taking form. . . the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or will ever be lived.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Consider this thought: Adam's entire existence was based upon what he ate. His diet determined his destiny. It also determined the entire course of human history.
— Frank Viola
All of our people all over the country—except the pure-blooded Indians—are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt