They say that happy people have no history, and certainly…

Happy people have no history.

— Leo Tolstoy

The days are short, The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark.

— John Updike

“I suppose we haven’t lost more than two days by my short cut through the Forest! But perhaps the delay will prove useful –…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

— Margaret Gatty

“I said so little. Days were short. Short days. Short nights. Short years. I said so little. I couldn't keep up. My heart grew…

— Czesław Miłosz

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Once he'd been an open book and the days had been too short to hold all our words.”

— Kristen Simmons

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

— Earl Nightingale

Sleep is my best friend when we're shooting 'Game of Thrones' because there are very long days and intense scenes.

— Maisie Williams

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like,…

— Colin Quinn

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

— Lynn Nottage

“Sometimes people have too much history together, history of the wrong kind, and people cannot tear pages from the book of their life. Once…

— Ryan David Jahn

“Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused”

— Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

— Immortal Technique

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

— Barbara Tuchman