History Quote by T. S. Eliot

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

— John Brown Gordon

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

— Joan Nestle

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.

— Ramon Gomez de la Serna

It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said with at…

— Pierre Clastres

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the…

— Dexter Perkins

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

— Gaby Hoffmann

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

— Aidan Chambers

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

— Anonymous

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

— George Santayana

A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.

— Ali Mazrui