Quotes About Events

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

Let's give the historians something to write about

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

History is the zoology of the human race.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

History is the memory of things said and done.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

History's just one darn thing after another.