Skip to content

“If you think that Man is free to build a new life while the rest of the world drifts by, then you do not know anything of history!”

— Terry Brooks

Another quote →

Topics

History

More quotes by Terry Brooks

The trick of course was not to go just anywhere, but to go where they might accomplish something useful.

What you need to do is take control of things. Don't wait for events to catch up with you; go and meet them head-on!

There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

You think that Man can start again, do you, Shea? Well you might be quite surprised to learn that some things never change, and that the dangers of power are always present, even to a race that almost obliterated itself.

All Terry Brooks quotes →

You may also like

A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Terry Brooks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.