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History Book Quotes

Anatole France quote: "History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. Anatole France
Dave Foley quote: "When I was in school, all our history books were American, so..."
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. Dave Foley
Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day."Not in the history books," said Valentine."Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father. Orson Scott Card
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. Ellen Tauscher
Nothing you do in the White House matters. You know why not? Because as far as the mass of voting morons is concerned, while you're in office, you'll still be the worst single president they've ever had until you stop. Then it's some other poor bastard's turn. And even that doesn't matter, because ten, twenty years later, they'll look back on you, and wonder why they didn't appreciate you when they had you...You don't get to make a difference. You don't get to do jack shit. You know... Neil Gaiman
The first dog I ever had was called Prince. I called him after the Black Prince. You know, the fellow who...''Massacred all the women and children in Limoges.''I don't remember that.''The history books gloss it over. Graham Greene
Charlie Chaplin quote: "There are more valid facts and details in works of art than..."
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. Charlie Chaplin
It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds. Terry Prachett
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value. James Lee Burke
And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards and typeset, I am astonished. Perhaps the event has an unassailable truth. God saw it. God knows. But I am not God. And so when someone tells me what they heard or saw, I believe them, and I believe their friend who also saw, but not in the same way, and I can put these accounts together and I will not have a seamless wonder but a sandwich laced with mustard... Jeanette Winterson
We do what we must to earn our place in the community, but we live for the hours at home. For each other, for the children. It will never get me written up in the history books. Orson Scott Card
i didn't need a timequake to teach me being alive was a crock of shit. i already knew that from my childhood and crucifixes and history books. Kurt Vonnegut
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. Bill Vaughan
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization. Martin Luther King jr.
The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward Carl Bernstein

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