History Quote by Tom Harper

“Here is the perennial trouble with burying your past. Others are forever trying to dig it up.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“So much is buried in our lives that we forget what we have learned.”

— Harley King

“With every shovelful, it's like we're traveling back in time. Where no one has gone for centuries...or maybe never gone before.”

— Roderick Gordon Williams

“We see now that the abyss of history is deep enough to hold us all.”

— Paul Valéry

“But again, it’s as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears and past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.”

— Lauren Oliver

“I am the archaeologist of love. I’m digging for the bones of a loved one I shot and buried decades ago.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

“That was half a year and a lifetime ago. For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind…

— Lauren Oliver

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“The present was enough, though my work in the cemetery told me every day what happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on…

— Louise Erdrich

“There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half of me…

— Pearl S. Buck

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma