Quotes on History

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”

Donna Tartt

“No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?”

Steve Maraboli

“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”

Priya Ardis

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”

Steve Maraboli

“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”

Bertolt Brecht

“I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”

Shaun David Hutchinson

“She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.”

Cassandra Clare

“War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.”

Ruta Sepetys

“How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.”

Steve Maraboli

“When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.”

Uchiha Madara

“Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.”

Lemony Snicket

“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”

Malcolm X

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

Vladimir Lenin

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

Frederic Bastiat

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”

Roger Ebert

“What comes, is called.”

Ki Longfellow

“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”

Patience Johnson

“He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.”

Prof. Kenneth W. Harl

“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.”

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.”

Suzy Kassem

“Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.”

Abhishek Shukla

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”

Suzy Kassem

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”

Francis Bacon

“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”“You deserved it.”

Priya Ardis

“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.”

Priya Ardis

“A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.”

Robin Schone

“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.”

Priya Ardis

“I can accept a compliment, but not from you. You scare me, Mister Sampson. You’re a stranger here on our land and we shouldn’t even concern ourselves with you. But you killed three gunmen and ignited a war.”

Donald Montano

“Heard straight from Napoleon’s mouth himself,” I say. “Champagne! In victory we deserve it, and in defeat we need it.”

Rebecca Rosenberg

“Brahma and AiravataLong ago in lands of golden sandBrahma turned to Saraswatiand gently kissed her inked hand....”

Muse

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Karl Marx

Men make their own history.

Karl Marx

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Benito Mussolini

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Benito Mussolini

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Benito Mussolini

Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Chinua Achebe

The power of the writer is to capture the struggles and victories of a people; to remind them of their rich histories.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Culture is a product of the history which it in turn reflects.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Memory is the link between the past and the present, between the present and the future.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

African writers are living history in their works.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

Wole Soyinka

A people denied the right to their history is a people deprived of their humanity.

Wole Soyinka

We must remember that we are part of a greater story, woven into the fabric of history, culture, and the shared human experience.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Reading is a conversation with the past.

David Bowles

Our stories are the songs of our people; to forget them is to silence our history.

Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Every time you take a history, you’re taking a narrative.

Abraham Verghese

Poetry is the whisper of history, a reminder of our past.

Adam Zagajewski