History Quotes

"The family has always been at the center of Appalachian life" "We owe our civilization to the curiosity of our ancestors, who never stopped questioning." "If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next." "To live means to leave traces" "He who seeks to approach his own buried past" "The storyteller's task is to name what is lost" "I have never physically taken part in a revolution" "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." "Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done." "To me, this is about preserving history and making information accessible to everyone."