History Quote by Kevin Young

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing…

— Pearl Cleage

“There's no excuse for a dull book, a dull museum, or a dull speech. Especially when dealing with history—the most fascinating subject I know.”

— Richard Norton Smith

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by…

— Kara Walker

I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what…

— Fritz Stern

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

— James Ellroy

All human history moves towards one great goal

— James Joyce

“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted BACKDROP…

— Milan Kundera

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming…

— Terry Eagleton

“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted backdrop…

— Milan Kundera

“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. We travel through time in a circular trajectory,…

— Ocean Vuong

“Historians like a quiet life, and usually they get it. For the most part, history moves at a deliberate pace, working its changes subtly…

— Simon Schama