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Quotes About Time

History's just one darn thing after another.
~ Henry Ford
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
~ Alan Shepard
Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.
~ Mary McAleese
History is no more than memories refreshed.
~ Peter Charles Newman
What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
~ Orson Welles, Mr. Arkadin
Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!
~ Billy Blanks
History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.
~ Henry Adams
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
~ Octavio Paz
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.
~ Richard Ellmann
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
~ Bruce Catton
History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
~ William Carlos Williams
Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.
~ Paulo Coelho
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
~ Robin Hobb
Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.
~ John Cleese
The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.
~ Leon Redbone
Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.
~ Vladimir Voinovich
No generation can escape history.
~ George H. W. Bush
History: a collection of epitaphs.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Our past has gone into history.
~ William McKinley
History is as Old as My Grandfather
~ Adolf Hitler
Things look different when history is seen as His-story.
~ Peter Kreeft
Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.
~ Bill Bryson
History is the siren song of the soul.
~ Terence McKenna
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
~ Ellen Glasgow