Stephen Ambrose Quotes

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

I love anything to do with history.

History is more interesting than politics.

There's a thing at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where I live: they have a stairwell where you follow the beginning and the course of this planet, and it's a very long stairwell, and you follow, and you follow, and then you reach the top, and we're, like, half a step on the stairwell - the timeline for us on this planet.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

That great dust-heap called “history.”

History happens all around us.

The word “History” is mostly made up of the word “Story”.

I do love history. I loved learning about wars and things in school.

I read a lot of history for fun.

I love historical references.

Everything that happened last year stays in the past.

I've always been fascinated by history.

A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

History is not everything, but it is the starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be.

History is the zoology of the human race.

History takes time... History makes memory.

… history itself appears to be abandoning the eruption of events in favor of stable structures

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

History is a pageant, not a philosophy.

The context of history proved invaluable.