History Quote by Alfred Kazin Download Open image “To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history…” — Alfred Kazin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consider Oneself History History Consider Inspirational Love Oneself Oneself Piece Piece History Pieces Sense History
“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“Everyone has an interpretation of history, which suits their interest and benefit” — Kandathil Sebastian Copy Share Image
History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people's perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which shape the… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied… — Paul Cartledge Copy Share Image
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint. — David Christian Copy Share Image
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and… — Roger Miret Copy Share Image
I'm a person who enjoys history, and history is very important to us - very very important it's about making judgement on history. It's… — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image