History Quote by Heather Graham

“Professor Julius Lester, which I kept propped on my desk: “History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our…

— Joan Nestle

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written…

— George Santayana

“History is what men choose to remember. Truth is what a man cannot forget.”

— Samantha Sotto

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue…

— Francis Parkman

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

“History is lie that can't be changed.”

— Jevon Scott

“History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it…

— Sean DeLauder

“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to…

— F. Sionil Jose

“History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to…

— Sue Monk Kidd