Quotes About History

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Now you know the rest of the story.

I am the old story. L'histoire ancienne. But an old story can still be a good story, no?

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

I like stories in specific time periods. 'The Revenant's' era of American history was fascinating because it was this lawless no-man's land. It defined the idea of the American frontiersman as man conquering nature. In a way, the story of Hugh Glass is about man dominating nature.

Food is all about the story of a people through the ages.

The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything.

I'm a storyteller; that is what I do. And I'm particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember.

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

As a storyteller, dates and time equal context.

I come from a long line of storytellers.

I come from a family of storytellers.

As British people, we don't often face what our role in history is. We're only just beginning to do that. Storytellers have an incredibly important role in confronting that and continuing the conversation.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

I come from a big family where we tell big stories. All we had was the storytelling.

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge of shared history.

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of short stories - you realize it's your interpretation of events that people read, and they absorb that.