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