Historical Quotes
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This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and a shirt.
Quote by -William Gerald Golding
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Quote by -Thomas Hobbes
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
Quote by -Samuel Beckett
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
Quote by -Stephen Colbert
It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.
Quote by -Stephen Colbert
Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.
Quote by -Pat Conroy
When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.
Quote by -Mariska Hargitay
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Quote by -Martin Luther
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Quote by -Martin Luther
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
Quote by -Martin Luther
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
Quote by -Martin Luther
Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
Quote by -Martin Luther
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Quote by -Martin Luther
Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Quote by -Martin Luther
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
Quote by -Martin Luther
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say
Quote by -Martin Luther
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Quote by -Martin Luther
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!
Quote by -Martin Luther
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
Quote by -Martin Luther
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Quote by -Martin Luther
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
Quote by -Martin Luther
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Quote by -Martin Luther
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Quote by -Martin Luther
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.
Quote by -Martin Luther