“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there. — Ramon Gomez de la Serna Copy Share Image
History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through… — Priscilla Smith Robertson Copy Share Image
History happened, but yet we quarrel over this so much we're in war about what happened yesterday. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“History is not what happened but what you are told has happened, irrespective of what is true.” — Elspeth Marr Copy Share Image
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it. — Frederic William Maitland Copy Share Image
“To demolish this basilica," the king said, " is to pretend our history never happened – an easy way to allow ourselves… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“Each people is, I believe, inclined to believe it is the purpose of history, that all that has happened is leading to… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
History happened, but yet we quarrel over this so much we're in war about what happened yesterday. We seem to hold onto… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Let's say that history is what happened. The record of what happened is how each individual happens to see those events. They've… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.” — R.A. McCandless Copy Share Image
I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
