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Jostling in the saddle against an iron shirt of mail wasn't half as romantic as the books made it out to be.
— Amy Jarecki
I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.
— Santosh Kalwar
Like mold on books, grow myths on history.
— Laini Taylor
The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
— Saul David
The book was an instrument of both repression and liberation
— Anders Rydell
The real history never makes the books;
— April White
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
— Steven Millhauser
History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.
— Stephanie Perkins
A machine condemned to devour books and then throw them , in a changed form , on the dunghill of history .
— Karl Marx
I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.
— James McBride
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
— Dave Foley
I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.
— Alan Shepard
It would be written in the history books," Luci Baines Johnson said. "But now the history had to be made.
— Ari Berman
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.
— Thomas Carlyle
To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.
— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.
— Bernard-Henri Levy
There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.
— Greg Ginn
Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.
— Pierce Brown
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
— Carl Jung
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
— Bill Maher
If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
— Caitlin Moran
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading.
— Henry David Thoreau
The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.
— Judy LaMarsh
It is over with; I am in the history books.
— Michael Moorer
The timeless books remain the footprints of history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Only give them history books. Men should read nothing else.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
— Noam Chomsky
Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.
— Frank-Walter Steinmeier
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
— Mark E. Smith
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
— Edna Ferber
History books are a record of events which bring us to the world in which we live today.
— Ian Davies
Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.
— George W. Bush
Old. Old is relative, girl. No, what makes them special is that they are books from history.
— Hannah Crow
All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.
— Tim LaHaye
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
— Richard Rorty
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
— David Strathairn
Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart. — Wen Tianxiang
History books are being re-written all the time
— Andy Warhol
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.
— Virginia Henley
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
— Peter M. Brant
It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.
— George Orwell
Then how about this: Remember Austin Gollaher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.
— Deborah Hopkinson
Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.
— Fela Durotoye
Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
— Catherynne M Valente
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
— Stanley Baldwin
Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
— Joanne Harris
Historical gap is created due to missing written records.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.
— David McCullough
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.
— Daniel Handler
In my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.
— Lisa Factora-Borchers
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.
— Cordelia Fine
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
History books celebrate people who overcome great challenges, they do not celebrate critics.
— Ryan Chamberlin
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it
— Jean Anouilh
Human nature in time is engraved in history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
— L. Ron Hubbard
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
— Anatole France
I read all the time ... I read a lot of history books.
— Mickey Spillane
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
— Tony Judt
If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
— Raphael Millet
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
— Christine Keeler
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
— Anatoly Rybakov
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
— Barbara Tuchman
The real war will never get in the books.
— Walt Whitman
He had all these books, decades of reading history, the company of ancestors she could only imagine.
— Hugh Howey
I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.
— Carice Van Houten
History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.
— Harold S. Kushner
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
— Charlie Chaplin
I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it.
— Nnedi Okorafor
Account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.
— Hilary Mantel
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
— Jesse Ventura
It is amazing how dull history books are, given how much of what's in them must be invented." What
— Michael Lewis
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
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
— Evita Peron
History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.
— Courtney M. Privett
Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable.
— Nina Sankovitch
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
— Dejan Stojanovic