Age Quote by Terry Jones

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

— Jacob Burckhardt

“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged”.”

— Howard Zinn

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital…

— Bono

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

— Thomas Jefferson

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

— George Orwell

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened…

— Jello Biafra

“Why not admit history's power to divide and destroy? Why attach ourselves to the age-old stories in the belief that they are truer than…

— Lorrie Moore

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

— Anonymous

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov