Quotes of: History-book Keyword

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

William Morris

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Shakespeare and Modern Culture

The actions of yesterday, the pretenses of tomorrow, and the presence of now, have forever added to history.

Sacrifice: A New Dawn

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

Shame

History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to.

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved.

More Baths, Less Talking

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Less Than One: Selected Essays

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

The Sun Watches the Sun

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

The Sun Watches the Sun

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

There But for The

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

Out of Oz

But people tend to forget what isn't in front of their faces, and most of them are too stupid to read their history.

Peter and the Vampires

...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Translations

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Ulysses

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

War and Peace

It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.

Was

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

Andrea Bocelli

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

Mark E. Hyman

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

Virginia Foxx

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

Time Enough for Love