Quotes About Chronicle

Journalism is the first draft of history

History is everything that has ever happened.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

Perfume is my memory, the chronicle of my life. —DB

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

History is but the nail on which the picture hangs.

Hayden] white argues instead for histories that avoid narrative closure and that highlight the contingency of the past ... He points especially to chronicle - a form marked by a lack of closure - as a useful alternative to the narrative. In a chronicle, historians offer an interpretation of the past but simply end the account when they reach the present.

Thursday, June 17, 997

When in the chronicle of wasted timeI see descriptions of the fairest wights,And beauty making beautiful old rime,In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,I see their antique pen would have express'dEven such a beauty as you master now.

Istoria nu are niciodat? sfâr?it.

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.

San Francisco Chronicle went the other way for three days, editorializing: "It is not necessary to imitate Hitler by herding whole populations, the guilty and the innocent together into even humane concentration camps.

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Charles B. MacDonald, the author of the Army's official account, described the retreat:

This day Time winds th' exhausted chain,To run the twelvemonth's length again.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

This is our story.

I'm a historian by training, Jimmy. Telling the truth has become a habit.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

In writing these yarns I've always felt less as creating them than as if I were simply chronicling his adventures as he told them to me. That's why they skip about so much, without following a regular order. The average adventurer, telling tales of a wild life at random, seldom follows any ordered plan, but narrates episodes widely separated by space and years, as they occur to him.

History does not unfold: it piles up.