Margaret MacMillan Quotes

History is a heavy thing everywhere.

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

The dignity of history.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

It may not be art, but it is history.

We can not escape history.

Ancient histories provide windows to knowing current affairs.

History takes time... History makes memory.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

History is more interesting than most people think.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.