History Quotes

"The twentieth century is very uninteresting because it is all repetition."

"History is a bucket of ashes."

"History is not the past; it's the present."

"History is written by the present."

"Tradition cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour."

"The most interesting English surnames are those that have a geographical origin."

"History is a pattern of timeless moments."

"To know the past is to free oneself from it."

"History repeats itself because we fail to learn from it."

"The black condition is something I know about."

"In the old days, we were not allowed to know our surnames, where we had come from, what tribe we were from."

"To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we do not make up the world in isolation."

"History teaches us; we must listen carefully."

"To understand America, you must walk its roads and listen to its people."

"Lincoln's beard hid many sorrows, but his eyes revealed his hope."

"The past speaks to us through its monuments and stories."

"Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches."

"Someone said 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know."

"Tradition must be valued, not abandoned."

"The past is a foreign country."

"We inherit the weight of history."

"Civilization is based on a very few things, and warps and forgets them."

"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

"The past is not dead; it is not even past."

"To know ourselves as a people is to know our history."

"To be alive is to be in constant dialogue with history."

"Hard to imagine that a handful of religious extremists could change the world, but they did."

"History is written by those with the courage to remember."

"The ancestors have spoken; now it is our turn to listen and to act."

"History is a vast early warning system."