Top 38 Quotes About Who Writes History
#1. OUR PERSUASION:
Too many prophecies have already been literally fulfilled for any reasonable person to say that these things happened by chance. They happened according to the plan and program of Almighty God, who writes history in advance. ~ Oliver Greene
Oliver Greene
#2. Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#3. A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.
Ami McKay
#4. Let me be one of the people who writes their life history, not with ink, with the colors of a caring heart.
Debasish Mridha
#5. He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.
Kenneth W. Harl
#6. The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
Nadine Gordimer
#7. History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E.L. Doctorow
#8. I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai
#10. What writes history is the power of ideas. And every moment offers the potential to write something new.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
#11. I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman stories, which are irresistible.
Virginia Henley
#12. Each one writes history according to his convenience.
Jose Rizal
#14. If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
Elizabeth Janeway
#15. To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
Abba Eban
#17. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
Agatha Christie
#18. Not only was he one of history's greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln was one of history's most devoted readers. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes of Lincoln, "Books became his academy, his college. The printed word united his mind with the great minds of generations past.
Pat Williams
#19. The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.
Agatha Christie
#20. History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#21. I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.
David Talbot
#22. The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us ...
Miriam Makeba
#23. For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.
John Muir
#25. The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.
John Dos Passos
#26. History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
Dan Brown
#27. It makes a difference whether Moses or Jeroboam writes the history curriculum.
Douglas Wilson
#28. When a man is interested in the past he writes history; when he is interested in the future he makes it.
Will Durant
#29. We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
John Ruskin
#30. Time is a strange storyteller. It writes, erases and rewrites endlessly. Things change, places and people become unrecognizable, but stories are repeated endlessly
Vandana Shanker
#31. Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
Samuel P. Huntington
#32. 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
#33. Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth.
Mike Barnicle
#34. History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.
Jan Smuts
#35. Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say.
Wendy Rose
#37. Since God writes history as man writes words, the literal events of history can be signs of other truths just as human words are signs of things other than themselves.
Peter Kreeft
