History Quote by André Gide

“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

“History’s smell. Like old roses on a breeze. It would lurk forever in ordinary things. In coat hangers. Tomatoes. In the tar on roads.…

— Arundhati Roy

“There were no ferns or shocks of crabgrass or other signs of plant life—only the presence of ancient, hulking trees. The woods had a…

— Jeff Wheeler

“...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.”

— E.J.H. Corner

“History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.”

— Simone Weil

“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

“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Those rare but wonderful memories remained with him even today. Fresh as a blooming flower from a new bud; ever erupting to refresh the…

— Raj Doctor

“Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.”

— Natalie Babbitt

“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into…

— Terry Pratchett

“The allure of antiquity... The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients. A visceral connection to…

— Monika Ajay Kaul