History Quote by Herbert Butterfield

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

— Rick Wakeman

“raconteur quality, but then why should she?”

— Annette De Burgh

“A friend and I came up with a game called Raconteur. You pair up with another Raconteur at a party and talk to everyone…

— Anonymous

The guy [Bill Clinton] was a known, let's say, "raconteur."

— Rush Limbaugh

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

— Sylvester Stallone

I'm an orator, a raconteur.

— Ron Shock

Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot…

— David Fahrenthold

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

— Jean Cocteau

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their…

— Angela Merkel

The NBA is my history.

— Penny Hardaway

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there…

— Frederick Buechner

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama