America Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

“Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is because the…

— Eckhart Tolle

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely…

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“Our past’s can either dictate who we are today, or help shape that we want to be.”

— J.S. Snow

“What are we if we are not products of our history? History is not in our past but forms us in the present. And…

— H.O. Charles

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents…

— Kevin Sessums

“Our historical pursuits should seek meaning as well as understanding, wisdom as well as knowledge. They should center on two pivotal questions: What can…

— Robert Tracy McKenzie

“What we think about, we speak; what we dwell on, we become. Our past is only important because it has been and is being…

— Hawkes Valente, Sarah

“The echoes of the past speak louder than any voice I hear right now.”

— Greg Puciato

“One might also say that history is not about the past. If you think about it, no one ever lived in the past. Washington,…

— David McCullough

“Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?”

— Galinda Glinda

“. . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present,…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

“History has a clear and distinct voice, but it does not force itself upon us uninvited. History”

— Stephen K. Ray