Quotes About History

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.

I'm a passionate monarchist.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

I was passionately interested in Elizabethan history at school, so it was natural for me as a musician to take interest in the music of that period.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.

In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

I exist only in the past.

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

I love seeing fashion from the past making a comeback.

Learning about our past is definitely important, not only for Australians but people around the world. It's something that Australia should never be ashamed of. It's part of our history. It's part of us.