History Quote by Peter Ackroyd

“History is funny that way. Things that seem far off and impossible have a way of turning out to be bearer and more possible…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.”

— Paula Wall

“History is personal . . . All that you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.”

— Alice Hoffman

“And that’s the way of time fucking with you. Making a lie out of every thought you think. Deforming truth with the certainty of…

— Jason Sheehan

“The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved.”

— Nick Hornby

“There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us.”

— Don DeLillo

“Events in the past maybe roughly divided into those which and probably never happened and those which do not matter.”

— William Ralph Inge

“...we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life--or change the whole world.”

— Jack Gantos

“Acknowledging reality for myself was one thing. Having to explain what as happening - and what was going to happen - to another person…

— Gavin Extence

“It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“we are not on the side of history made. We were, as I have said, situated in such a way that every lived minute…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The very old, he thought, make our past. Once they go it seems for a moment that neither it nor we have any real…

— P.D. James