Quotes About Past

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

I don't know where my medals are.

The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

I love creating that community and writing about that place, because I think, in some ways, Bois Sauvage is like the DeLisle of my past; it's like the DeLisle of the '80s that I can never return to. So in some ways, when I write about Bois Sauvage, I'm writing about a home that I've lost.

I can't rewrite history.

Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now.

I always had my roots in the past.

One should live with history round one.

I'm not the type of player that's going to run in behind or go past three and score.

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.

It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.

I've owned mopeds in the past.

I'm not one of those kind of people that likes to beat up the past to validate the present. Certain people think that it's cool to make fun of MC Hammer. I'm like, 'Yeah, but you owned all of his records.'

I love a place packed with history.

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.

So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

In the late 19th century, Russian Cosmists such as Nikolai Fyodorov believed we need to go to space to collect all the particles of all the people who had ever lived. Cosmism says going into space is going into the past.

You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?