“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many [people] have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you a…”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.”— Sandra Dallas, amazon.com
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history, is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com
“I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.”— Dejan Stojanovic, amazon.com
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Every blossoming of civilisation is partly promise of the future, but mainly a summation of the past.”— John Vyvyan, amazon.com
“Perhaps the definition of librarian will gradually morph over the coming decades to ‘one who protects us from the historical record.”— Matthew Stein, thecollegefix.com
“Alternate views of history often intrigue me more than straightforward accounts.”— Matthew Newton, matthewnewton.us
“If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.”— Ray Kroc, mcdonalds.com
“It’s nice if you can be friends with your ex, but that’s what they are, an ex. History.”— Robyn Kirwan, thoughtcatalog.com
“The bulk of a prairie grass plant, it turns out, exists out of sight, with anywhere from eight to fourteen feet of roots extending down into the earth.”— Becky Harlan, proof.nationalgeographic.com
“They came to believe that nature worked according to predefined rules, like a machine—an approach that forms the basis of our modern scientific views.”— Jo Marchant, smithsonianmag.com
“It's worth remembering that seven hundred years later, we don't remember the individuals who built the Belfry or dug the canals; we don't remember their political affiliations or even their nationalistic identities; we remember them as a collective, just as we ourselves will be remembered as a colle…”— John Green, youtube.com
“I think we owe both the dead and the not-yet-living precisely the same thing: the daily awareness that human life is ours only in trust.”— John Green, youtube.com
“We have to take notice of the amazing creations of our own age and consider what the greatest cultural legacy would be. The answer, of course, being peace and plenty and equality and awesome.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“In many ways, we are never the same physically or psychologically from instant to instant; it's that continuity that makes us, us.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Old souls are creatures of history and nostalgia. Given the richness of their imaginative worlds in their heads, it is important to communicate to them that you understand and remember their shared history, even the details. It tells them it meant something to you.”— Samira Khan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Just because you have history with someone does not mean you should be with them.”— Andrea Davis, thoughtcatalog.com