Quotes Tagged With :historian

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand....

Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.....

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.

In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated,....

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience,....