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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'History'

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In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
Allen Weinstein, American Public Servant (1937-  )
Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
Adam Weishaupt, German Clergyman (1748-1830)
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.
Julius Wellhausen, German Educator (1844-1918)
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
Julius Wellhausen, German Educator (1844-1918)
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells, English Author (1866-1946)
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. Wells, English Author (1866-1946)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells, English Author (1866-1946)
To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.
David Wells, American Athlete (1963-  )
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Irvine Welsh, Scottish Novelist (1961-  )
There is a noble and a base side to every history.
Thomas Wentworth, English Politician (1593-1641)
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
Dorothy West, American Novelist (1907-1998)
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Rebecca West, Irish Author (1892-1983)
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Vivienne Westwood, English Designer (1941-  )
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
Vivienne Westwood, English Designer (1941-  )
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
William H. Wharton, American Politician (1802-1839)
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
Gilbert White, English Scientist (1720-1793)
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician (1861-1947)
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman, American Poet (1819-1892)
More Americans are working today than at any time in history.
Roger Wicker, American Politician (1951-  )
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel, American Novelist (1928-  )
 
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