History Quote by Claire North

“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“From The Noise of Time: What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves--the music of…

— Julian Barnes

“History is re-creation while literature is creation.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.”

— Stephen King

“... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.”

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.”

— Patrick Lane

“sometimes music isn't just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it's more than that: a time machine...”

— Alina Radoi

“History is written by every generation. Every generation writes its own history using the same sources. The interpretations vary according to time.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

— Brian Friel

“Words are the only things in this universe, which never become old and if these become old then make history . Impact and affect…

— Naveen Mishra

“Music allows us to assemble temporal sequences into mental scaffolding that transcends the thinness of time in which we live.”

— George B. Dyson