Books Quote by Francis Bacon

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

— Francis Bacon

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

— Jill Lepore

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out…

— Francis Bacon

“Saving History One Story at a Time”

— MWSA website

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal…

— Robert Holdstock

“Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues…

— Sara Sheridan

“When we change the shape of the Land, we alter the contents and contexts of our collective, familial, and personal memories. Yet, stories can…

— Ari Berk

The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason I found…

— Kevin Young

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research…

— Simon Schama

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled…

— Sylvia Plath

How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as…

— Washington Irving

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how…

— Alice McDermott