History Quote by Michael Jan Friedman

“It may be an olive branch that was still attached to a tree. A twisted tree which rotted from the inside out.”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“No one looks at an olive tree and asks why it hides it fruits. It blossoms when its ready and under the right conditions.”

— Sadiqua Hamdan

“doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of…

— Barack Obama

“olive trees. As I looked closer at them I wondered if they had escaped; their trunks and roots were so gnarled and scarred it…

— Giacomo Giammatteo

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed.…

— Elizabeth Strout

“For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.”

— Peter Orner

“The tree struck him with such force it would’ve flattened me into a Percy pizza with extra olives.”

— Rick Riordan

“He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children.”

— Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

“History remains with the people who will appreciate it most.”

— Adam Silvera

“referencing that self-imposed simplicity favored by New England Protestants who respect everything about wealth other than its uses.”

— Amor Towles

“Athens was ripped from their wealth and territory but their culture still lived on. This now engraved upon your memory, what decision shall you…

— Anonymous

“History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage.”

— James S.A. Corey