Boots Quote by Voltaire

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

— Voltaire

History repeats itself, and so does fashion.

— Taylor Hill

And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins…

— Anne Enright

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

— Jonathan Swift

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

— Aldous Huxley

If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

— Herbert V. Prochnow

There's a thing at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where I live: they have a stairwell where you follow the beginning…

— Peter Dinklage

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

— Barack Obama

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in…

— Louis Kronenberger

Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And…

— William Butler Yeats

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle