Paulo Coelho Quotes

Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.

Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.

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

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

Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting our lives?

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past.

We are tomorrow's past.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

The historian has a special obligation to sobriety and fidelity to the record.

We have a national memory in this country of about 7 minutes.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

Richard M. Nixon ... has a deeper concern for his place in history than for the people he governs. And history will not fail to note that fact.

In an outgoing transition, you start closing the books on today and start working for the history books.

Since human memory is short and does not suffice for a crowd of things, the authority of those who preceded our age, the divine emperors and kings, has decreed that those things were to be written down which the progress of fleeting time generally removes from the knowledge of men.

Those who come after us will... fill up the canvas we begin.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product.

Writing history is writing the soul of the past...

History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.

We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

We often do not get the first draft of history right.

History is on every occasion the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.

You can’t just wave a magic wand and make our history go away..