Chronology Quote by Hilary Mantel

“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”

— Anthony Doerr

History is no more than memories refreshed.

— Peter Charles Newman

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details…

— John Daniel

“Our memories do not visit us in chronology, and the story we form by joining up the memories involves choices with the purpose of…

— Zia Haider Rahman

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to…

— Jasper Fforde

“Saving History One Story at a Time”

— MWSA website

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

— Eduardo Galeano

“History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.”

— T.L. Rese

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

— Gertrude Stein

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

— Niall Ferguson