History Quote by Wendell Berry

“At her tender age she was incapable of understanding such a history,”

— Christine Feehan

“Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men... it had…

— George Eliot

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any means. I…

— Geraldine Brooks

“He immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason to. The…

— Anonymous

“Memory is a poet, not a historian.”

— Paul Geraldy

“Whenever he was unclear about some idea or emotion, uncertain in his perception of someone or vague about a memory, he sat to his…

— James Carlos Blake

“Never was his remarkable memory more useful than when he could see mathematics only in his mind's eye.”

— William Dunham

“He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all…

— Stefan Zweig

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he…

— Madeline Claire Franklin

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck