People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - JAMES BALDWIN

---

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

---

History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own. — Michelle Obama, attorney and former First Lady of the United States

---

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

---

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because ‘What if?’ is the big thing. - KATE ATKINSON

---

Our history is not our destiny. - ALAN COHEN

---

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

---

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.' — Winston S. Churchill

---

We learn from history that we don't learn from history! ― Desmond Tutu

---

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

---