Great saying by great authors Quote by M E W Sherwood

“while we remain immersed in the study of personal incidents and details, as what such a statesman said or how many men were killed…

— John Fiske

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

— Joseph Stalin

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our…

— Richard M. Nixon

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under…

— Lionel Trilling

“Do heroes know when they are heroic? Rarely. Are historic moments acknowledged when they happen? You know the answer to that one. (If not,…

— Max Lucado

“The hero is a device which the historian has taken over from the layman. He uses it because he has no scientific vocabulary or…

— B.F. Skinner

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we…

— Erwin McManus

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is…

— Anonymous

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

— Ronald Reagan

“For heroes do not make history—that is the historian’s job—but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know…

— Anonymous

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.

— Alexandra Petri