Dead History Quotes
- I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood. — George R. R. Martin
- With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is… — George Eliot
- The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and… — Henry David Thoreau