What are we if we are not products of our history? History…

Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified…

— Mark Hopkins

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider…

— Moderata Fonte

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

— Michel de Montaigne

As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends…

— Newt Gingrich

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write

— Michel De Montaigne

There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories…

— Eric Reeves

“Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.”

— Brian Herbert

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

— David Shannon

Sometimes, we should know that ex is like a history. A history is a past. That certain people will never forget.

— Shakay Kaichi

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

— Laura Esquivel

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone…

— Olivia d'Abo

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking…

— Sarah Dessen

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

— Ernest Dimnet

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the…

— Frederick Jackson Turner

I want to give meaning to the history of the past, but to do it in real time, as if it were lived. This…

— Albert Serra