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We are all living history, and it's hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing's certain, though: if we throw it away, it's gone. — Marilyn Johnson

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. — Dee Dee Myers

Today is the first day in history.

-One of Nathan's Daily Gems
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Seal Beach, CA — Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it. — Robert Heilbroner

There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful. — Ellis Peters

History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore. — Debalina Haldar

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx

I've spent most of my life perfecting the craft of living history. I have no practice at living in the present. — Leila Sales

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement. — Michael Dirda

Be a history maker — Sunday Adelaja

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril — Niall Ferguson

History teaches us every day; our understanding is the matter! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When I am old and addled I will make coronets like Cad, that have nothing to do with history, but represent the whimsy and cobwebs in my brain. — Sherri Baldy

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men. — Marc Bloch

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

I'd been going to study Pre-Flowering History," Tiercel offered.
"Now you're living it," Kave said. — Mercedes Lackey

In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in. — Charles Martin

Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. — Liam Neeson

Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners. — Ellen J. Barrier

When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history. — Pope Francis

There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot. — Edwin Mullins

Life will be empty without great stories to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London. — Helene Hanff

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it. — Robert Zoellick

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. — E. O. Wilson

Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past. — Michael Bassey Johnson

So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one's chances of being a victim of violence fivefold. — Steven Pinker

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse. — Terry Tempest Williams

History works itself out in the living. — Louise Erdrich

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living. — William Carlos Williams

you know What,Every one living for making History so am I. — Nikhil

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. — Steve Jobs

Historians predict the past for a living. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history. — David Levithan

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. — Stephen Spender

But every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human memories. — Jack Gantos

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history. — Herman Wouk

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me. — Marianne Williamson

When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life. — Thomas Schlamme

History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass. — Frederic Harrison

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history. — Chelsea Clinton

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history. — Jacob M. Appel

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. — Karl Marx

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. — Edmund Burke

The pond garden is an intricate phenomenon coalescing the intent and will of various people of influence living at various times. — Norris Brock Johnson

History belongs to the dead... Discovery belongs to the Living.

(Professor Alistair Dawkins) — Samuel L. Norman

I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living. — John Lewis

Live your best sacred-life.
It is only one-time in history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out. — Jasper Fforde

Faith in Jesus is the most important event in the history of a child's life. — Elizabeth George

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? — Anne Frank

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species. — Wendell Berry

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history — Brian Tracy

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target. — David H. Hackworth

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

because what is commonly assumed to be past history is actually as much a part of the living present as William Faulkner insisted. — Ralph Ellison

Living in your genome is the history of our species. — Barry Schuler

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world. — E. O. Wilson

For our entire history, we'd been surviving instead of living. Today, — Svetlana Alexievich

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living. — John Smith

There's too much history in York, the past is so crowded that sometimes it feels as if there's no room for the living. — Kate Atkinson

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. — Edward Bond

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world. — Auliq Ice

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space. — Niall Ferguson

The normal make a living. The deranged make history. — Christopher Titus

Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "
Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses. — Tom Standage

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living — Lawrence Durrell

History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living. — Isaac Asimov

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand. — Emily Giffin

Whatever you do today, impacts your historicity. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? — Tatjana Soli

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead. — Niall Ferguson

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living. — Sir Laurens Van Der Post

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race. — Mike Rounds

Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history pauses and takes stock and changes course. — John Steinbeck

History never looks like history when you are living through it. — John W. Gardner

What keeps you from ... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? — Rainer Maria Rilke

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now. — Meek Mill

There's no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others. — Demi Lovato

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted. — Ralph Raico

The more I learn, the more I yearn. — Aaron B. Powell

Don't be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for. — Shannon L. Alder

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. — Mattie J.T. Stepanek