Quote by John Steinbeck

“people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”

— John Steinbeck

“During the dry years, the people forgot about the rich years, and when the wet years returned, they lost all memory of the dry…

— John Steinbeck

“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

“It was the way things were going. People realizing how little time they had left to get rich before the planet melted.”

— Phil Rickman

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the…

— Upton Sinclair

“The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.”

— Richelle Mead

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

— Sarah Dessen

“Mankind had built a world that would take hundred years to die. A century for the last lights to go out.”

— Justin Cronin

“It is part of the fascination of the study of history that we often know more about what went on a hundred years ago…

— William Stewart Wallace 1932

“I wanted to believe that as generations turned over, those coming into economic and political power would build a different, better, more expansive world,…

— Anna Wiener

“Why, alone of all the more-than-five-hundred-million, should I have to bear the burden of history?”

— Salman Rushdie