Quotes About History

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.