--- title: "1 History Look Quotes By Roma Tearne" description: "1 History Look quotes by Roma Tearne. Plus more from Roma Tearne and more History Look sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/roma-tearne-36204_anticipate_you-can-t-anticipate-history-it-s-only-w_3149250.png" --- > [You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/you-can-t-anticipate-history-it-s-only-when-you-look-back-you-see/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/roma-tearne-36204_anticipate_you-can-t-anticipate-history-it-s-only-w_3149250.png) ## More by Roma Tearne > [This thing, reconciliation, isn't perfect, but we also must have hope. Without hope, there is nothing. So let's hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/this-thing-reconciliation-isn-t-perfect-but-we-also-must-have-hope/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/remembered-memory-is-much-more-powerful-than-actually-having-your-own/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/grey-has-no-agenda-grey-has-the-ability-that-no-other-colour-has-to/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in, say, America…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/we-oppress-people-we-make-our-victims-small-wherever-they-are-whether/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [“Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/has-there-ever-been-a-country-that-once-colonized-avoided-civil-war/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [It is important for women to do something about what they see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/it-is-important-for-women-to-do-something-about-what-they-see/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [“It is impossible not to make mistakes during a war.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/it-is-impossible-not-to-make-mistakes-during-a-war/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/some-say-art-is-our-highest-form-of-hope-perhaps-it-s-our-only-hope/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/once-you-have-been-tortured-you-can-never-belong-in-this-world-there/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [Reconciliation is one of the hardest words. We almost forget, but there's always a little group that can't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/reconciliation-is-one-of-the-hardest-words-we-almost-forget-but-there/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around the globe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/actually-what-is-happening-in-the-twenty-first-century-this-is-the/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [“...there are places that don't belong to geography but to time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/there-are-places-that-don-t-belong-to-geography-but-to-time/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) > [You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roma-tearne/you-can-t-anticipate-history-it-s-only-when-you-look-back-you-see/) [Roma Tearne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roma-tearne/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history-look/roma-tearne/#itemlist", "name": "1 History Look Quotes By Roma Tearne", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. 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