Top 100 Your History Quotes
#1. The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
Maya Angelou
#3. When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
Kurt Busiek
#4. You are endowed with a peculiar gift, a wild card really, capable of thumping your history, while creating your future - called Free Will.
Garry Fitchett
#5. Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
Breyten Breytenbach
#6. When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.
T.D. Jakes
#7. It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.
Andy Andrews
#8. The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost.
Danny Wallace
#9. You can't appreciate the world you live in and know if it's better or worse than previous generations unless you know your history.
Chris Dietzel
#10. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
#11. I don't need to know your history. I don't want to know about your past," he says as he looks at me. "I want to pretend that you exist today just for me, that no one else knows you the way I know you at this moment.
Ava Zavora
#12. When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.
Diane Ravitch
#13. It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
Philip Roth
#14. It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Your family is part of who you are.
Sophie Kinsella
#16. Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.
Seth Godin
#17. You found your God in a paperback,
You get your history from the Union Jack.
Oasis
#18. Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.
Michael Jackson
#19. Another thing to strive for: reading your history should move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention, not give the serious reason to scorn it, and allow the prudent to praise it.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#20. Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.
Brian Keene
#21. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'
V.S. Naipaul
#22. Your resolve is unquestionable. Your character undeniable. Your history unparalleled. You've inspired us, all the way. You will again today.
Donnie Wahlberg
#23. If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.
Robert Longo
#25. And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
Michael Berryman
#26. TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time & choices wisely
Fela Durotoye
#27. You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.
Mallory Ortberg
#28. Dedication
For everyone who knows there was enough room for Leonardo DiCaprio on that door.
And for England. We're really sorry for what we're about to do to your history.
Cynthia Hand
#29. No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?
Steve Maraboli
#30. What do you care?" Arik Siq asked. "Who your people were matters hardly at all. Who they are now is what matters. Who you are." "Your history is sometimes a way of understanding your present," Pan replied. "You are your history.
Terry Brooks
#31. Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.
Glen Duncan
#32. You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.
Amy Chan
#33. Do not feel trapped by the facts of your history. Your history is not some set of sacred facts. History is an interpretation, and your history is yours to interpret. To know the history and then reinterpret it gives you additional depth.
Harriet Rubin
#34. There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
Malorie Blackman
#35. It's all history out there, Clemens. Your history, my history. You and me, boy, not dates and things. You and me. That's what history is all about. How we came to be here, in the way we are, the clothes we wear.
David Wiseman
#36. People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as it may, press forward as the dust settles. Your purpose is much bigger than their paltriness.
T.F. Hodge
#37. You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.
T.D. Jakes
#39. Don't forget your history nor your destiny
Bob Marley
#40. If you want to love him, you have to wash away the past. Only you can do this, my dear. You must go away, to the sea, perhaps. And you must bathe away all the fears and all the hurts given you by your history.
Jasinda Wilder
#41. Jimmy Hoffa said, "I know how Jesus must have felt. The fucking pharaohs rose to power on his coattails like the fucking Kennedy brothers are rising on mine."
Heshie Ryskind said, "Get your history straight. It was Julius Caesar that did Jesus in.
James Ellroy
#42. If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.
Jose Gonzalez
#43. You are you because you love the way the world looks through your camera. You are you because of the way you love your friends and family. Not because some scar is on your body. That's a part of your history and what helps form what you believe in. not what defines you.
A.M. Willard
#44. How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.
Elena Ferrante
#45. Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
Vik Muniz
#46. Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli
#47. As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
Ben Harper
#48. An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe.
Kelly Steed
#49. What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.
August Wilson
#51. The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be ...
David B. Coe
#52. So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it's not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#53. Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. As you walk with God, you can always begin again. It is never too late for a fresh start. Your history does not have to be your destiny! Believe
Joyce Meyer
#55. The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history.
It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
Stefan Molyneux
#56. The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
Gary Zukav
#57. You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.
George W. Bush
#58. Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.
Jaggi Vasudev
#60. Does the soul have a passport? Or do you simply pick the branch of the family tree that you prefer, with its preferred location, and hang your history on it?
Susan Mann
#61. All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.
Ray Davies
#62. Your history will be depend by your actions.
Evan
#63. If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: 'Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.'
Esther Hicks
#64. All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.
Bill Bryson
#65. There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.
Habeeb Akande
#66. You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.
Beth Moore
#67. Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
Novak Djokovic
#68. You may have what it takes to be successful, but if you lose yourself in someone else's priorities or societal expectations, you will be judged not by your potential but rather by your history
Lois P Frankel
#69. Even if you've taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It's hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn't being naked, not really. It's just showing skin.
Catherynne M Valente
#70. I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
Nas
#71. Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.
John Le Carre
#72. If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay, then you're in deep trouble. Once you make a certain kind of peace with the past, then you should be completely oriented towards speculation about the future.
Kerry James Marshall
#73. Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.
Jack Gantos
#74. Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.
Jacob M. Appel
#75. If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
Caitlin Moran
#76. In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
Phil Donahue
#77. Don't carry the world around or your history around like a burden. In fact, don't carry it around at all. One step at a time.
Art Hochberg
#78. Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'
Maya Angelou
#79. That's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself. (p. 717)
Wally Lamb
#80. You have told me your history, but speak little fo teh present. Why's that - Sabine Strohem
Nick Bantock
#81. Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.
Gloria Feldt
#82. Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny ... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!!
Paula White
#83. To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.
John Henrik Clarke
#84. To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
Alan Cohen
#85. Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.
Toni Morrison
#86. What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
Leonard Sweet
#87. You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.
Pat Benatar
#88. Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Angela Carter
#89. Don't. I understand. I knew going into this that a story about us was also going to be a story about the two of you. And it should be. He was a big part of your life, and I'm okay with your history. It made you who you are. And I happen to be in love with who you are.
S.C. Stephens
#90. If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!
Barbara Ann Mojica
#91. Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.
Muhammad Iqbal
#92. As an actor, you have to have your history.
Nora Dunn
#93. Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
Eddie Vedder
#94. To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history.
Christine Caine
#95. You remember your history?" He had finished five years of high school with respectable marks and a very good showing in trigonometry and geography but did not remember much history. In his final year, anyway, all you could think about was that you were going to the war. He said, "Not altogether.
Alice Munro
#96. I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
Emilia Fox
#97. You have thousands of friends and all of them will be part of your history but not with your destiny.
Evan
#98. We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.
David Levithan
#99. If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.
Bob Marley
#100. What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back through your history books and you'll discover that just about everything you take for granted today in your daily lives was absolutely impossible not so many years ago.
Martin Caidin
