History Quotes

Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.

18227 quotes

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"The Taliban have always been the same"
Rahim Khan
O
"Some pigs are born revolutionary"
Old Major
A
"I watched the twin towers fall."
Amir
J
"What has occurred before will occur again."
Judge Holden
S
"The great houses of England are the backbone of our civilization."
Stevens
T
"History is not something you can escape by moving to a new place."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The past, though buried, continues to shape our present."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
O
"We were Gilead's past, Janine and me."
Offred
T
"History records the names of the great. But I too have lived."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"The past is always with us. It never truly disappears."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
O
"The past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes."
Offred
T
"History teaches nothing."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"The past is never past."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
O
"We were the people who were passing the playing field"
Offred
S
"There's nothing new in this world except the history you don't know"
Serena Joy
T
"History records the patterns of men's lives."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
O
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print."
Offred
O
"History is a matter of point of view"
Offred
T
"History records the patterns of men's hearts."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
R
"History is what you make of it."
Rinehart
O
"The women's lives were like that of women in other times, I suppose, in wartime or in wars of religion."
Offred
B
"The past haunted every present moment."
Briony Tallis
T
"History is not what happened. History is what is remembered."
The Narrator (omniscient)
O
"We were the people who were not in the papers"
Offred
T
"History is shaped by small things. Small, invisible things."
The Narrator (omniscient)
J
"The world runs on in time like an old clock, and we are the makers of it."
Judge Holden
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"Humans are creatures of habit, and we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The house had gradually transformed into a tomb of living memories."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The Buendía family was condemned to repeat the same mistakes eternally."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)