Ancient history Quote by Roberta Pearce

“The trouble with ancient history is that, as far as I can tell, the vast majority of it took place a hell of a…

— John Powell

“Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“These relics have a history then?' 'So much so that they are history.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”

— Voltaire

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

“History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.”

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“In the future - 60-80 years from now, what would a historian of that time look back at as the one big thing that…

— Osama A. Hashmi

“everything in the room felt eerily advanced and ancient at the same time.”

— Hugh Howey

“You mean, the good old days of the fourteenth century.”

— Bobby Akart

“History is the archaeology of the present and future.”

— Patrick Mendis

“Very curious, and the story that hangs round it will strike you as being more curious still." "These relics have a history then?" "So…

— Arthur Conan Doyle