Ancient history Quote by John Powell

“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.”

— Roberta Pearce

“History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.”

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”

— Voltaire

“There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.”

— Sarah Dessen

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.”

— Mitch Rowland

“Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.”

— Arnold Toynbee

“In the future - 60-80 years from now, what would a historian of that time look back at as the one big thing that…

— Osama A. Hashmi