Joanna Jedrzejczyk Quotes

History takes time... History makes memory.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity

History happens all around us.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

Never, ever forget history.

It's good to pass on stories.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

A good story never dies.

That great dust-heap called “history.”

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 that which transforms documents into monuments

History breaks down in images not into stories.

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

History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.

I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.

Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Death steals everything except our stories.

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.