Quotes of: History-book Keyword

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Newt Gingrich

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

Robert Darnton

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

Todd Tiahrt

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

Goldwin Smith

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

Michael Rostovtzeff

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

Tom Wolfe

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

...And so history gets written to prove the legend is ridiculous. But soon the legend replaces the history because the legend is more interesting.

John Brouwer

Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.

Billie Letts

We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.

J.K. Rowling

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

Julien Gracq

[after his men fail to kill Tom] Richie Cusack: How do you fuck that up?

A History of Violence

My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making my own more or less appropriate selections. I read gory tales of historic heroism that nine-teenth century parents were suitable for children...

The Thirteenth Tale

The judicial methods used by the Communists in our day are the same as those of the Holy Inquisition. To secure the Reign of Terror, the Communists are as brutal as the Christian Church was during a long period of thirteen hundred years, for the same...

Dignitarian Way - Criticism of Christianity, The Jews and Religion, by Great Authorities

Many modern Christians think of the New Testament as a book outside of history, something that was just suddenly there. Historians of Christianity, able to trace its gradual authorship and formation, nonetheless typically find themselves describing t...

The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon

If the Gospel of Judas found in Codex Tchacos can be convincingly identified as being a Coptic translation of the original Greek Gospel of Judas that Bishop Ireneaus mentioned around A.D. 180 in his book, "Against Heresies," it will be an important s...

The Gospel of Judas

These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was th...

Anthem

For the information of these “friends” who consider themselves called to defend against us the role of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution, we give warning that our book teaches not how to love a victorious revolution after the event, in the...

History of the Russian Revolution