History is the memory of life

“No matter how invisible I feel, I will always be wrapped in the memory of life as a captive. —Quebrado”

— Margarita Engle

“You may be decay and a platitude Of flesh, but I have no other such memory of life.”

— Christopher Fry

“Her eyelids drooped low. He could resist no longer. He bent and pressed his mouth to hers. He kissed her softly at first, making…

— Melanie Dickerson

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.…

— Stephen Fry

“Whether individual, collective, or even written history, memory is not a fixed, passive storage system: it is dynamic, changing according to different circumstances. The…

— Suzanne Keene

“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much…

— Peter Geye

In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and…

— Anne Bogart

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

— John Smith

There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to…

— Floyd Red Crow Westerman

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

— Anne Michaels

History is the memory of things said and done.

— Carl L. Becker

Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a memory, they…

— Israel Rosenfield

“History is the memory of states,' wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored , in which he proceeded to tell the…

— Howard Zinn

It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds…

— Rebecca Walker

“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to his way…

— Russell A. Peck