James Hilton Quotes

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

A lot of people may not read the history of their own country, but they carry on memories transmitted by previous generations. They're trying to achieve something, [they] have their mission and anger -- all this is fed by past experience of history.

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.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

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

In the stable periods of history, meaning was supplied in the context of a coherent community and traditionally prescribed patterns of culture. Today we cannot count on any such inheritance.

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

France is an old country that does not forget.

The control of the past depends above all on the training of memory

For more than 1000 years our spiritual traditions and common values have been nurtured and begotten here. Today, as we restore the value of patriotism, historical memory and cultural tradition, we are seeking firmer bonds with Mount Athos.

Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

I just love learning about the past and everything we've been through as people and as a country.

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

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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.

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.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.