History Quote by Alice Hoffman Download Open image ““History is personal . . . All that you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.”” — Alice Hoffman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Recent history takes a while to set. People really don’t know what just happened. They only figure it out later.” — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“I don’t need to know your history. I don’t want to know about your past," he says as he looks at me. "I want… — Ava Zavora Copy Share Image
“None of it seemed very real, but I suppose that's the trouble with history. It's the one thing we have to make up for… — Peter Ackroyd 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
“Look, you think I like history because I’m fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you’re wrong. I like it… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“I rarely behave well and live in a way that will make history- HERstory.” — Mishi McCoy Copy Share Image
“...we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life--or change the whole world.” — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“All of the quarters in his hand were tarnished. He had no idea that the silver in a man’s pockets always turns black if… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was after dark when the woods were most filled with magic, when there were fireflies and the mist was rising from the streams.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching… — Alice Hoffman 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