Acting Quote by Eric Reid

That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well…

— Mary McAleese

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

— Joanne Harris

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the…

— Paul Auster

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

— William Kristol

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and…

— Miriam Makeba

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You…

— Frank Gehry

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

— Katherine Center

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

— George Eliot