Accidents Quote by Janet Fitch

You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher…

— Leif Enger

“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

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

— Gerda Lerner

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains…

— Paul Valery

“If history teaches us anything at all, it is that sooner or later, wherever you go or whatever you do, the sad, brutal fact…

— Taylor Anderson

“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and…

— David McCullough

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

“Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice,…

— Don DeLillo

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree