Quotes about History
I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday
— Anne Frank
Peter added, "The Jews have been and always will be the chosen people!" I answered, "Just this once, I hope they'll be chosen for something good!
— Anne Frank
The Knock at the Door by Ina Boudier-Bakker.
— Anne Frank
I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.
— Anne Lamott
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.
— Shane Claiborne
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?
— Mahatma Gandhi
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
— John F. Kennedy
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
— John F. Kennedy
The smoke of Patrick Hamilton hath infected all those on whom it blew.
— John Foxe
A. D. 1560, pope Pius the Fourth, ordered all the protestants to be severely persecuted throughout the Italian states, when great numbers of every age, sex, and condition, suffered martyrdom.
— John Foxe