If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

~ Rudyard Kipling

The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.

~ Chinese proverb

Life is but a little story, punctuated in the main with commas of our happiness and periods of our pain.

~ Edgar Selwyn

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our being.

~ Studs Terkel

In the end, only the stories survive.

~ Alexis M. Smith

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
 

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience.

They are the currency of human contact.

~ Robert McKee