
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
Quoted in Rhoda Thomas Tripp, The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970), p. 280.
Generation X (1991)
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
Quoted in Rhoda Thomas Tripp, The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970), p. 280.
“The trouble is, you can ignore history—but history won’t necessarily ignore you.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 5, “Lost in Committee” (p. 87)
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for
On 25 May 2017 to EFF supporters during Africa Day celebrations in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, Watch Malema On Land Grab: The Land And All That’s In It Belongs to Us https://buzzsouthafrica.com/watch-malema-on-land-grab/, Chika Udeh (26 May 2017)
“You better live every day like your last because one day you're going to be right.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk (2007) by Larry Chang and Roderick Terry, p. 365
“Never let a day so pass that you will have cause to say, "I will live better to-morrow,"”
Journal of Discourses 8:140 (August 5, 1860)
1860s