Top 66 Historical Inspirational Quotes
#1. There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean's horizon.
P.J. Parker
#2. Our Euripides the human,
With his droppings of warm tears,
and his touchings of things common
Till they rose to meet the spheres.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#3. Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.
Elizabeth Wein
#4. Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?
P.J. Parker
#5. Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light's father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.
P.J. Parker
#6. Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam.
Heather Blanton
#7. It's been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love.
Heather Blanton
#8. Love has a heavy load of possibilities. You can't have it without some measure of pain. They go together with an inseparable bond in this world. But it's worth it. I promise you, the treasure is worth the pain.
Miranda Shisler
#9. The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.
P.J. Parker
#10. A Quote from Monty's journal in GOD MUST BE WEEPING. I felt as anonymous as a grain of sand.
J.D. Winston
#11. He could fit what he knew about women in a bullet casing and still have room for the gunpowder.
Karen Witemeyer
#12. When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
David McCullough
#13. She smiled, and her smile was filled with all of the sweetness and forgiveness that she offered so freely - and that he didn't deserve. But maybe, as with God, it was time to finally stop condemning himself and accept the gift.
Jody Hedlund
#14. If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.
(Voltaire)
Elizabeth Kales
#15. Human affairs are not governed ultimately by historical events, fate, or chance, but by God ... Divine purpose moving steadily from beginning to end.
Eugenia Price
#16. Could he really want a relationship with a woman who was at the point in life of trading beauty for wisdom?
Heather Blanton
#17. Nicholas met with him earlier about some lumber deal and sent him here for lunch. He's evidently new in town and was wondering where to get something good to eat.
Melissa Jagears
#19. For whom do you cry, my son?" the Great Spirit asked.
"I do not know."
"Yes, you do.
P.J. Parker
#23. We live in a complicated society, Bromley - one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?
P.J. Parker
#24. We the People . . . The People of the Long House.
P.J. Parker
#25. I'm more interested in lookin' forward than back. The past is done and there's no changin' it.
Heather Blanton
#26. West Point - The Key to the Continent and Independence.
P.J. Parker
#27. I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.
Lisa M. Prysock
#28. You can't be perfect. No one is. That's why we need God.
Jody Hedlund
#29. Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has that pale-gold quality unique to this time of year. There have been several weeks of this weather now, without a drop of rain.
Lucy Foley
#30. If you can't see the good man he is, you need to unscrew them eyeballs of yours and try on a different pair.
Karen Witemeyer
#31. Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
Hilary Mantel
#32. What's bosoms?" Cade asked.
"You'll find out when you get older," Jake said.
"A lot older," Colt said.
Scarlett Dunn
#33. We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.
P.J. Parker
#34. I'll try to turn the other cheek....But I've only got two and they're both stinging.
Heather Blanton
#35. I've seen enough cowboys in my life to know I don't want one for a husband."
...Victoria
"Every good man I know is a cowboy."
Scarlett Dunn
#36. Her face a mask of fury and determination.
Jody Hedlund
#38. The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.
P.J. Parker
#40. I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books.
T.S. Wieland
#41. And the only hope-perhaps the real hope he'd been missing all along-was found in God.
Jody Hedlund
#42. Follow your heart as long as you live ... Bring your whole heart towards excellence ... And no limit may be set to art.
The Instruction Of Ptahhotop
#43. I call the spot Eden," he said. "Who could not wish to paint such a paradise?
Kate Breslin
#44. Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
Myrna Ericksen
#45. You asked if I loved her?
I can't even whisper her name, my heart would burst out of my chest.
Ahmad Ardalan
#46. She was lucky if he stood behind her. Not so lucky if he came to crush her. And a woman might only learn the truth of it - when he walked out of her life.
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Lenore Wolfe
#47. For every woman, there is that one man who could get her to go anywhere he wanted her to go, do anything he wanted her to do - reach into her soul and turn her whole world on its ear - challenge everything she thought she believed.
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Lenore Wolfe
#48. We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.
Heather Blanton
#49. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique ... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.
Vaclav Havel
#50. But she'd learned instead to hope in the one Beacon that would always be there, no matter what darkness came her way.
Jody Hedlund
#51. Do you plan on marrying Charles?"
She shook her head.
"Good. I wouldn't want to shoot him, but I would."
... Finding Promise
Scarlett Dunn
#53. Show us not the aim without the way.
For ends and means on earth are so entangled
That changing one, you change the other too;
Each different path brings other ends in view
Arthur Koestler
#56. God wanted him to go to Him with his deepest needs, to stop looking elsewhere, so that he could be made whole again.
Jody Hedlund
#58. How things change,' I say, 'how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.
Judith Arnopp
#59. Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.
P.J. Parker
#60. She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.
Alicia G. Ruggieri
#61. Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.
Victor Hugo
#62. This is a time of change," the Shaman said. "This is a time of enormous power.
P.J. Parker
#63. I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.
P.J. Parker
#64. In matters of literary and historical appraisement, one cannot operate with the methods of a laboratory or furnish the proof to be demanded in a court of law. The best is only the probable. Any who raise complaint have an easy remedy: to offer something better, something coherent and constructive.
Ronald Syme
#65. Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#66. Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren't even there, some who were there were not really there, and some who were not really there were "really there".
Tom Hays
