Dave Barry Quotes

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

I don't think you learn specific lessons from history, but you do learn proportion.

I write to learn the flow of history.

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

I'm a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of peace are increasing daily inside Israel.