Forget Quote by Ken Burns Download Open image “People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".” — Ken Burns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forget History People Stories
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“STORY” is more than half of the word “HISTORY”. And that’s no accident.” — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story. — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war,… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans? — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived.… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
“Jackie Robinson stole home and he's safe."...Nobody could hurt him again. He wouldn't hear the name-calling. He would only hear the cheers and somehow… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I Never met her,i never talked to her,but in my whole day I am either thinking about her or trying to forget her. — Subhananda Copy Share Image
What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
“So you try, and try, to move past it and forget about them, but it's like they're stuck in your head -- you can't… — Abby McDonald Copy Share Image
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
