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History is what people want to remember. -- Jane Stevenson
Be a history maker -- Sunday Adelaja
I am a fan of history. -- Tom T. Hall
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
History is hallmark of humanity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression. -- Helen Keller
History is the siren song of the soul. -- Terence Mckenna
Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today. -- Neil Degrasse Tyson
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living -- Lawrence Durrell
History is clarified experience. -- James Russell Lowell
History is at once freedom and necessity. -- Antonio Gramsci
History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles. -- Terry Pratchett
History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening. -- James Joyce
History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured. -- Kedar Joshi
History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible. -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Leave history to historians. -- Ali Babacan
History is the science of things which are not repeated. -- Paul Valery
How would you document the history of today? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness. -- Vincent Massey
History is the hallmark of humanity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
History is history. -- Troy Vincent
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. -- Auguste Comte
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. -- Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. -- Norman O. Brown
History is the heart of humanity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. -- Donald Creighton
History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive. -- Edmund Morgan
History is a record of exploded ideas. -- John Fisher, 1St Baron Fisher
History has been conceived
and with high justification in the records
as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies. -- Mary Ritter Beard
History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance. -- Donald Creighton
Histories are instruments of oppression. -- Catherynne M Valente
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. -- Marc Bloch
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. -- Howard Nemerov
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. -- Peter Greenaway
When history calls, history calls, -- Olympia Snowe
History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset. -- David Grann
Define history. Was it the sequence of factual past events, the stories about the factual sequence of past events, or the interpretation of the stories about past events? -- Josh Lanyon
History made when mindset changed. -- Toba Beta
History is Storytelling. -- Yaa Gyasi
History is usually a random, messy affair', -- Richard Dawkins
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. -- Amy Waldman
History is more interesting than most people think. -- Tansy Rayner Roberts
Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing. -- George W. Bush
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends. -- Leo Tolstoy
When searching out a history, sifting through a thousand facts and ten thousand lives, one often uncovers pieces that do not fit. -- Julie Berry
In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history. -- Tariq Ali
Our histories plan our futures. -- Robyn Carr
History is the memory of States. -- Henry Kissinger
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. -- Julian Barnes
History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever-growin pile of crap. Right now we're standin at the top of it, but pretty soon we'll be buried under the doodoo of generations yet to come. -- Stephen King
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. -- Walter Bagehot
History is an amazing presence
it is the place where vanished time gathers. While we are in the flow of time, it is difficult to glean its significance, and it is only in looking back that we can recognize the hidden dimensions at work within a particular era or epoch. -- John O'donohue
History is not a map to be read, nor a path to be followed. It is a landscape of contours and textures, of colours and sounds. -- Tom Lloyd
Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history. -- Amilcar Cabral
History is the self-consciousness of humanity. -- Johann Gustav Droysen
History is as Old as My Grandfather -- Adolf Hitler
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints. -- Allan Nevins
Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer. -- Louis L'amour
History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around the world is changing. It makes heroes out of some people and victims out of others. -- Vicky Adin
History's a bitch when you're in the middle of it. -- Jay Asher
History Belong to those who pray.... -- Jake Hamilton
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think. -- Simon Schama
History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar. -- Mal Peet
History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory -- George Santayana
What is history, indeed, but a record of change? -- Jawaharlal Nehru
History is the angle at which realities meet. -- Don Delillo
History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward -- Hendrik Willem Van Loon
History is the seed bed of the future. -- Leo Booth
History is the science of what never happens twice. -- Paul Valery
Human nature in time is engraved in history. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma -- Aldous Huxley
History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts. -- Peter Kuznick
History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth. -- Michelle Sagara West
History's just one darn thing after another. -- Henry Ford
History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living. -- John Smith
History teaches us every day; our understanding is the matter! -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots. -- Michel-Rolph Trouillot
History is simply what's behind us. -- Brad Meltzer
History is a bath of blood. -- William James
Historyis nothing other than a collection of the lives of people, some of them great, some of them ordinarynothing other than a collection of what people have done in challenging circumstances and how they have risen to those circumstances. -- Artur Davis
History is not necessarily what happened but what is recorded. -- Debbie Terranova
HISTORY IS the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible. -- Leo Tolstoy
History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world. -- Heraclitus
History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. -- Lewis F. Powell Jr.
History is the daughter of time. -- Lucien Febvre
The special and salutary benefit of the study of history is to behold evidence of every sort of behavior set forth as on a splendid memorial; from it you may select for yourself and for your country what to emulate, from it what to avoid, whether basely begun or basely concluded. -- Livy
The most important history is the history we make today. -- Henry Ford
History is the story of events, with praise or blame. -- Cotton Mather
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. -- Ralph Davis
History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. -- Julian Jaynes
Study the Past to Understand Today -- Cynthia Belmer
History is meaningless unless you discern how the past shapes the present. -- Rory Clements
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it. -- David Christian
History is the invention of historians. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. -- David Mccullough
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues. -- T. S. Eliot
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. -- James Henry Breasted
At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact ... -- Aberjhani
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. -- William S. Paley
