Confusion Quote by Allan Nevins

History is the memory of States.

— Anonymous

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

— James R. Thompson

Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

— Barack Obama

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

— Barack Obama

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

— Henry Adams

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

— Robin Hobb

History goes in cycles.

— Matteo Salvini

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

— Jodi Picoult

History is more or less bunk.

— Henry Ford

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

— Eamon Duffy

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters