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They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern.
Well, okay ... maybe medieval. — Roberta Pearce

And perhaps they too would one day be lost to history. — Susan Dennard

[He] looked at her as though she'd lost her mind, and [she] had her first experience of men rewriting history. I did no such thing [he said] — Jude Deveraux

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote. — John Taliaferro

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. — William Howard Adams

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth. — Jill Lepore

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,' — Barack Obama

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever. — Lailah Gifty Akita

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. — Gore Vidal

If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment. — John Zanetti

People have lost their history, the what and how and why of things. They know so little of the places where they live. — Dean Koontz

But the ifs of history: if Cleopatra's nose had been one inch longer,' he said, 'would Antony have lost the battle of Actium? — William Dalrymple

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. — P. J. O'Rourke

All this history ... ,' Danny says, then trails off. Lost in it. Feeling it connect. Realizing the weight of the world comes largely from its past. — David Levithan

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost. — Muriel Rukeyser

World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives. — Martin McGuinness

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering. — Clive Cussler

He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything. — Graham Greene

In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that. — Lucy Foley

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. — Carl Sagan

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it. — Michael Baumgartner

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost! — Louis Farrakhan

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war — Charles De Gaulle

She was a person with her own hopes and feelings and history and nightmares. In her own way she was as lost as he was. — Lev Grossman

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be. — Richard J. Foster

You know, the guys there were so beautiful - they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago. — Allen Ginsberg

History, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness. — Helen Foster Snow

For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever. — Mary E. Pearson

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. — Ernest Thompson Seton

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story. — Buzz Aldrin

we must proclaim the gospel because history has shown that where the gospel is merely assumed it will slowly be perverted and lost. — Bruce Ashford

Nothing is lost in history: sooner or later every creative idea finds opportunity and development, and adds its color to the flame of life. — Will Durant

More than half of our history is lost, not because they were not documented, but they had no guardians and protectors. — M.F. Moonzajer

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. — Stefan Zweig

It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1. — Alex Ferguson

I've been working on the lost history of technical women. — Megan Smith

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints. — Alison Weir

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost. — Joyce Carol Oates

Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves. — Vasily Grossman

Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost. — Patrick Lane

We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll — George Pratt

I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context. — Shimon Attie

History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position. — Allan Nevins

Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story. — Baltasar Kormakur

Some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart. — Aberjhani

The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we
recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history. — Winston Churchill

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history. — Graham Masterton

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story
so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change. — Alanis Obomsawin

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. — James Martineau

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things. — Giambattista Vico