History Quote by Robin Sloan

“Just one small thing had changed, such a small thing really. What difference could it make, the era in which we are born?”

— Andrew Sean Greer

“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

“Sixty-four has a way of forgetting what twenty-one was like.”

— Stephen King

“For thirty or forty years, through middle age, they would look almost exactly the same, and then all of a sudden the decades would…

— Matthew Mather

“Words made you laugh and history fell apart into tales and isolated mysteries threatening to be trivial.”

— Joseph McElroy

“What could he have done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the…

— Margaret Atwood

“So close, I thought. A shorter fence, a fatter dog, and everything would be different. But wasn't that always the way. It's never something…

— Sarah Dessen

“But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't…

— Ralph Moody

“It’s almost unbelievable that one person could have such an effect on it. It makes me wonder about the small things in life, and…

— Gwen Cole

“Like many people the young man was caught between conflicting cultures, diametrically opposed to each other, and through this he had to navigate. I…

— Cass Tell

“Sometimes history turns on that little: a single moment, a single bullet.”

— Phillip DePoy

“That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow;…

— Josephine Tey