History Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and…

— Oprah Winfrey

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future,…

— Peter Gay

I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.

— Yuval Noah Harari

I don't have a strong interest in history.

— Larry Niven

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

— Gloria Feldt

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

— Paulo Coelho

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

— Joseph Conrad

If you don't know your history, you can't know your future.

— Lenny Henry

I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more…

— Sufjan Stevens

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

— Leon Redbone

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

— Thomas Carlyle