Am Quote by Simon Schama

I think a sense of history and perspective for our young people today is essential.

— Vera Lynn

Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

— Lawrence Wright

I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we…

— Nikki Giovanni

History is the daughter of time.

— Lucien Febvre

A lot of people would say history is important because it helps us to predict the future. I don't think that it does particularly.…

— Lucy Worsley

Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance

— Amit Abraham

“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable…

— Eudora Welty

As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.

— Stephen Covey

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

— Frederik Pohl

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

— Emilie Autumn

The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

— John F. Kennedy

History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you…

— Richelle Mead