Book Quote by Jean M. Auel

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

— Pierre Loti

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

— Eduardo Galeano

“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of…

— Cassandra Clare

I'm not an historian but I can get interested-obsessively interested-with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent…

— Penelope Lively

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell…

— Charles Guggenheim

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

— Ken Burns

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of years ago…

— Cassandra Clare

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs.…

— Jared Diamond

I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided me with…

— Naomi Mitchison

Both mythology and history interest me.

— Mohit Raina

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

— Carl Jung