History Quotes

"History teaches those willing to listen."

"We are our history. We are not divorcing ourselves from our past."

"We are historians of our own lives."

"History repeats without consciousness."

"History teaches us that the future is unpredictable."

"Every real movement of history is rooted in real material conditions."

"To get to a place, you have to have known where you started."

"History is not something that happened to other people; it is the foundation upon which we stand."

"The past is always with us, whether we acknowledge it or not."

"History teaches those willing to listen and learn."

"It goes a long way back, some people say."

"The story of America is not one of level plains but of rolling hills and valleys."

"In the beginning was not only the Word, but Black consciousness too."

"We have been schooled to think that our lives are isolated from history."

"History is not just what happened in the past. It's alive in us now."

"Memory is the anchor that keeps us tethered to our humanity."

"History is written by the victorious, but lived by everyone who survives it."

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

"History teaches us the lessons we need to learn."

"History is written by those who live it boldly."

"The past is a foreign country; we cannot return there, only learn its language."

"The Negro speaks of rivers."

"History is a teacher if we are willing to learn."

"To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to Africa; and that we understand that."

"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me."

"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of historical truth."

"The past is always going to haunt you with whispers of what might have been."

"Memory is a way of telling stories about the past that shape our future."

"Memory is not a collection of moments; it is the story we tell ourselves about them."

"What we inherit from the past is both a burden and a gift."