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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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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
Derrick Jensen, American Author (1960-  )
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Author (1873-1950)
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
Bobby Jindal, American Politician (1971-  )
I'm a history nut.
Billy Joel, American Musician (1949-  )
The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
Roland Joffe, English Director (1945-  )
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
Roland Joffe, English Director (1945-  )
I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.
Roland Joffe, English Director (1945-  )
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
Roland Joffe, English Director (1945-  )
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
Scarlett Johansson, American Actress (1984-  )
I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.
Elton John, English Musician (1947-  )
I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
Lara St. John, Canadian Musician (1971-  )
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
Michael Johns, American Politician (1964-  )
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.
Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson, American Activist (1936-  )
According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.
Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator
History seems to be so clumsy.
Robert Johnson, American Psychologist (1911-1938)
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.
Robert Johnson, American Psychologist (1911-1938)
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. Johnson, American President (1908-1973)
I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
Eddie Bernice Johnson, American Politician (1935-  )
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.
Eyvind Johnson, Swedish Author (1900-1976)
 
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