Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.
~ Sara Sheridan
Today is the first day in history.-One of Nathan's Daily GemsFrom the 'Book Store ON Main Street'Seal Beach, CA
~ Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.
~ J.k. Rowling
We were each of us trying, trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.
~ Amber Garibay
Each of us play a unique role in the history of life. What legacy do you want to live behind?
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Respond to your ability, play your part and make your mark in history.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.
After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower the unity of the German nation and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
~ Adolf Hitler
History is a vast early warning system.
~ Norman Cousins
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
~ Otto Von Bismarck
History is the devil's scripture.
~ Lord Byron
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
~ Abraham Lincoln
In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
~ John Fowles
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
~ W. H. Auden
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
~ Aldous Huxley
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
~ Dean William R. Inge
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
~ Eric Hoffer
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
~ Saki
When the historian Charles A. Beard was asked about the lessons from history he said there were four: 1. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. 2. Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power. 3. The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceeding small. 4. When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
~ Charles A. Beard
History doesn't pass the dishes again.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.
~ Anonymous
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
~ Herodotus
Most history is a record of the triumphs disasters and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.
~ Philip Howard
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
~ George W. Ball
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
~ Samuel Butler
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us.
~ E. M. Forster
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.
~ John W. Gardner
History is philosophy learned from examples.
~ Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
~ Abba Eban
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
~ Roberto Rossellini
Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.
~ Thomas H. Raddall
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
~ George Santayana
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
~ Will Durant
I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.
~ Stephen Leacock
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
~ Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
~ Louis Fischer
The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
~ Max Beerbohm
