Claws Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by…

— George W. Bush

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

— David McCullough

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present,…

— Robert Kennedy

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

— Roger Rees

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by…

— Gilbert Highet

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,

— Jack Granatstein

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov