History Quote by John Knowles

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over…

— John Knowles

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

— Walter Wink

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

— Julianne Malveaux

It's profound to watch a little African-American girl light up when she raps as George Washington and she realizes that Washington's story is her…

— Rory O'Malley

History belongs to the intercessors

— Walter Wink

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

— Bruce Jackson

“Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history. It belongs to all…

— Amy Hill Hearth

There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up among simple…

— Svetlana Alexievich

There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things…

— Philip Pullman

History belongs to everyone. I don't think you have to give up scholarly standards. But I also don't think you want to write something…

— Margaret MacMillan

“History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present”

— Shashi Tharoor

“History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.”

— Péter Esterházy