Quotes

At the start of the school year, I would have my students write an essay responding to a quote about history. This would allow me to see how they felt about history in general and it allowed me to see my students' writing skills. Here are a few of my favorite quotes.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ~Winston Churchill

History is a novel for which the people is the author. ~Alfred de Vigny, Réflexions sur la Vérité dans l'Art

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. ~Dexter Perkins

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

There is also an interesting article called "Top 10 Famous Historic Misquotes".