A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. — Richard Reeves Copy Share Image
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry. — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people. — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off. — Lisa Lopes Copy Share Image
If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Professor Julius Lester, which I kept propped on my desk: “History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it. — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
“History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.” — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure if you just screwed with history or if history just screwed with you.” — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
I was always pretty interested in my history. Not just the history of the Caribbean, the history of my people, but all… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
