History Quote by Jack Gantos Download Open image ““Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.”” — Jack Gantos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.” — Emile Habiby Copy Share Image
“know now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.” — peter adejimi Copy Share Image
“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined.” — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
“Most often in history it was the conquerors who learned willingly from the conquered.” — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
“History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.” — Manjul Bajaj Copy Share Image
“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It should be obvious to someone of your intelligence, Grand Patriarch.” Lavinia’s fine brows arch. “History is written by the victors. And victors can… — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“School was finally out and I was standing on a picnic table in our backyard getting ready for a great summer vacation when my… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you. — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it. — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“My youthful dream of becoming a writer has been realized. I am so pleased I did not let my young self down.” — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“Money is just a way of measuring work, but you don’t need money if everyone agrees that trading one kind of work for another… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“Not romantic," she disagreed. "To me it would be romantic if Antony properly fell on his sword and kicked the bucket and Cleopatra escaped… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“chair wouldn’t rock. So I heaved myself from side to side. It still didn’t move. I gripped the arms and jerked myself around and… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“Granny was right,' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate.” — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk,… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
