History Quote by Gish Jen

“He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the…

— Judith Krantz

“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.”

— A.H. Septimius

“A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.”

— George W. Bush

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“He looked like a being who'd voyaged back through time from a world that had overcome illness, pain, and conflict.”

— Walter Kirn

“His eyes flew back at me and I could see whole civilizations, cities that he'd built and cherished and planned for, like the model…

— Lyndsay Faye

“In all our wrongs, I want to write him, in a time where I can find him. Before the tears that tore us. When…

— Lang Leav

“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making…

— Tracy Kidder

“History lessons were superficial. The past was not set in stone, and was occasionally rewritten.”

— Hyeonseo Lee

“There was so much about our past that I still didn't understand, and I wasn't one to tell the future. I could only tell…

— Yovanoff, Brenna