Family Quote by Mary Pipher

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

— David Miliband

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

— Thomas Carlyle

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

— John Sedgwick

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

— Sarah Churchwell

When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.

— Thomas Schlamme

Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences…

— Linda Simon

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

— John Diefenbaker

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

— Lenny Henry

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up…

— Howard Zinn

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

Do not feel trapped by the facts of your history. Your history is not some set of sacred facts. History is an interpretation, and…

— Harriet Rubin