History Quote by Augustine Birrell Download Open image “That great dust-heap called 'history'.” — Augustine Birrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“History repeats itself. Someone says this. History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.” — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which is is possible to… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action. — Augustine Birrell 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
