“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”
“History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.”
“Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art, never war, that carries culture forward.”
“I clink my glass against hers and we drink without toasting. The aged cognac tastes like history. Not the kind taught in schools, full of wars and politics and cultural revolution - the smaller, softer history of a world with only two people in it.”
“Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.”