Culture Quote by David McCullough

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

“History teaches us things about ourselves, but you have to listen for the lessons. You have to be really still to hear the whispers.”

— Amber Kizer

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

— James Harvey Robinson

“however the trouble with “lessons from history” is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.

— Nam June Paik

“Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can determine what…

— Cynthia A. Patterson

“As a reminder, that sometimes, history gives great enough opportunity to those with ideals and who struggle to test their ability to realize their…

— Anonymous

If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament…

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

“World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures…

— Oswald Spengler

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the…

— Alex Haley

“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, /…

— Adrienne Rich