Rewrite History Quotes

#1. Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

George W. Bush

#2. Grace was my best friend. I can't let anyone forget her. I'm sure you understand."
Mr. Farrow smiled, but the smile didn't quite reach his eyes. "Of course, it's easy to rewrite history when we lose a loved one, isn't it? Sometimes we only remember the things we want to remember.

Lisa Roecker

#3. I believe that fact had been haunting Danny for all these years. But now he could change all that. He could right a wrong and rewrite history, for in his film not only he but also the entire cast of Taxi would be at Andy's funeral.

Bob Zmuda

#4. If we constantly rewrite history to fit how we see things now, we forget how things used to be and, equally important to future scholars, how we used to see them.

Anne Summers

#5. But I can't rewrite history. I can love only with what's left.

Suzanne Young

#6. If you had your time all over again ... ? She was keen to know.
You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do.

Maeve Binchy

#7. I don't want to rewrite history.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

#8. If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Marjorie Garber

#9. But I can't rewrite history. I can only live with what's left.

Suzanne Young

#10. I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

Michael Phelps

#11. The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Oscar Wilde

#12. I can't rewrite history.

Pattie Boyd

#13. Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a fundamental conflict with China, and probably to war. Certainly in the long term, it would have led to war.

Henry A. Kissinger

#14. That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure that's where the invention of the afterlife comes from. "We don't really become worm food. We go to a magical place with bunnies and rainbows."

Bobcat Goldthwait

#15. To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

Jean Monnet

#16. That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

D. James Kennedy

#17. Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Robin G. Collingwood

#18. Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history.

Jean Chretien

#19. Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor who happened to be standing there when the Soviet Union imploded. They have the media, the universities, the textbooks. We have ourselves. We are the witnesses.

Ann Coulter

#20. Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background

Steven Biko

#21. The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Oscar Wilde

#22. He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.

Anne Fortier

#23. Man has always tried to rewrite his history but the mind is unforgiving, more so is time" - The Monk

Shashi

#24. Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

David Byrne

#25. No, I don't have the slightest desire to rewrite the past or history or whatever. What I'd like to rewrite is the present, here and now.

Haruki Murakami

#26. I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?

Chris Marker

#27. In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.

Rick Scarborough

#28. Those unuttered words of your smile can rewrite the history of this wonderful world.

Debasish Mridha

#29. You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.

V.T. Davy

#30. We live and die by our stories if we don't rewrite our own history. The past is merely what we make of it, the future ours to create. Rewrite revise, erase.

Sheryl Mallory-Johnson

#31. It's the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we rewrite their lives.

Hilary Mantel