Pastoral Resources

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.