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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'History'

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If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
James J. Hill, American Businessman (1838-1916)
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
Anita Hill, Celebrity (1956-  )
The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.
Anita Hill, Celebrity (1956-  )
In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.
Laura Hillenbrand, American Author
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
James Hillman, American Psychologist
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
Gertrude Himmelfarb, -
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
Maurice Hinchey, -
Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.
Ruben Hinojosa, American Politician (1940-  )
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
Russell Hoban, American Novelist (1925-  )
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Russell Hoban, American Novelist (1925-  )
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
Dee Hock, American Businessman
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
David Hockney, English Artist (1937-  )
I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.
Jim Hodges, American Politician (1956-  )
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Eric Hoffer, American Writer (1902-1983)
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
Richard Hofstadter, American Historian (1916-1970)
She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.
Simon Hoggart, British Journalist (1946-  )
If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
Harri Holkeri, Finnish Politician (1937-  )
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
Harri Holkeri, Finnish Politician (1937-  )
In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
Harri Holkeri, Finnish Politician (1937-  )
I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.
Fritz Hollings, American Politician (1922-  )
 
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