Us History Quotes

History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force indeed, ....

Even so, I think historians have more to offer than perspective on our present woes. The foreign country we call the past also lets us look beyond the horizons of what is, to see what could be.

European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.

History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.

Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.

Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.

... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.

We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.

While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark period in American history.

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And once it began, it was difficult to interrupt or stop

History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better future, ” -105

Good historians...have the future in their bones

According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.

Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.

Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering itself.

History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.

An individual is no match for history.

History is the hidden map of who, where and how we are today.

Just because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.

All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.

It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is always difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet possible.

When history disappears, you disappear.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.

We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.

Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.

What’s this war called again?”“The Hundred Years War.”“Hmmmm, got a bad feeling about this one.

History may be just bones and ruins to you, but it is people, Janet. People loving, hurting, and dying.

The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.

future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.

I have got the Arctic lure and will certainly go North again.

The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

If the ravens leave the Tower, Britain will fall.

A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad.

So, what’s the status?” said Ira as he pulled himself down to his couch.“Will is turning into a starship, ” Hugo replied, clearly only half in jest. “We’re about to watch history in the making.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other, the earth, ourselves.

There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.

Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.

Every age has its darkness....

I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt.

Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.

Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past!

There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.