History Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

“And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea…

— Aldous Huxley

“The person unaware of history is like a rudderless boat just floating out in the middle of the ocean, hostages to the waves and…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“We'd pass icebergs floating in the middle of the ocean. They were gigantic, with strange formations carved into them. They were so haunting and…

— Maria Semple

“as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,”

— Heath White

“Atlantic Ocean 88 Miles off the Coast of Antarctica Karl Selig steadied himself on the ship’s rail and peered through the binoculars at the…

— A.G. Riddle

“Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Loving the lost leads you into arctic sea's. By day you may find calming waves. But by night you fight ice berg's, and bitter…

— Zachary Koukol

“Coldest the remembrance of the wider ocean--wealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.”

— Heraclitus

“Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing…

— Charles Darwin

“Breaking from the universe, like waves spilling, plunging and surging against a shore, we crash with life and vigor, scrape and scour, spit beaches…

— Jeffrey A. White