Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.
Nick Clooney

Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.
Charles Moore

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
Michael Shermer

Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.
Jon Porter

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
Michael Ondaatje

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
Samuel E. Morison

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
Roger Caras

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
Kevin Kelly

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.
James Lafferty

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
Paul Ricoeur

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.
Minna Antrim

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.
Jeremy Jackson

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.
Charles Hodge

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
Philip Schaff

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
Dag Hammarskjold

The author is aware that the essence of the Christian faith is perfectly independent of his criticism. The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
David Friedrich Strauss

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.
Paul Deman

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Tse-Tung

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
Ferdinand de Saussure

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
David Trimble