History Quote by Abram Joseph Ryan

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac,…

— Mary Astor

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

— Elie Wiesel

For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

— Tan Twan Eng

“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much…

— Peter Geye

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

— Louis L'Amour

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

— I. L. Peretz

“When we change the shape of the Land, we alter the contents and contexts of our collective, familial, and personal memories. Yet, stories can…

— Ari Berk

If there can be such a thing as instinctual memory, the consciousness of land and water must lie deeper in the core of us…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the…

— John O'Donohue

History is the memory of a nation

— Thomas Sowell

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent…

— Elie Wiesel

Continents of memory had been lost.

— Alan Lightman