- Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
- Frederick Jackson Turner on History
- Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
- Margaret Thatcher on History
- Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
- George Lucas on History
- Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
- Jean-Paul Sartre on History
- Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on History
- Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
- Mason Cooley on History
- Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
- Haruki Murakami on History
- Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
- Rahm Emanuel on History
- Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
- George Michael on History
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