Historical Quote by A'Lelia Bundles

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

— Jesmyn Ward

“History is always the interpretation of the present”

— Anonymous

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

— Antony Beevor

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

— Penelope Lively

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about…

— Toni Morrison

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of…

— Penelope Lively

I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a…

— David Finckel

The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.

— Norman Davies