Quotes About Past

A child is never the author of his own history. I suppose this is well known.

That's what time was like, along with the things occupying it, that it made the feelings connected to any memory seem worthless.

Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always had. The sun himself envied us.

Colectionar, fetisist, nu m-am putut desp?r?i de simboluri, de amintiri, de verigile acestea ale trecutului gelos ag??ate unele de altele de-a lungul unei vie?i întregi.

Dance to the tune of hope as worries of the past slip away to the surrender of smiles

What path from what past, what journeys towards what future when departure and destination of every moment is in the direction of dance

S Novom je godinom zapo?eo novi kozmi?ki ciklus. Neka no?ne more iz prošlosti zauvijek nestanu!

The pages of life that had already been turned could not be opened again.

she'd done her best to block it out. Back then, the future had

He nods, looking through the pictures on the screen on the back of his camera. Some relationships can only exist as memories. But unlike ephemeral digital images that can be sorted and deleted, we can't erase the past. We have to learn to live with all the images that are stored in love's archive, memories tagged good and bad. No Photoshopping. Accept the negative before moving forward.

The past is never really gone. It only lies in wait for you, remembered or forgotten.

It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will become. Not the memories of the past.

You know, children, quilts, like stories, are part of our heritage, part of our culture. Some quilts even tell stories. Our past is a patchwork of memories and tales. You all keep that forever tucked in your pockets, you hear?

It is in the past, enough looking back, it is gone, it is more over with than the shocks of childhood.

it was never in doubt that you had suffered more than I when young.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

The promises of the future cannot undo the harm of the past.

yet for those of his generation, the time spent in war was often clearer than the recent past. Perhaps that was because cold, and fear, and the constant presence of death had formed an acid that etched the war memories indelibly in the mind. It had taken a long time for everyday life to override the stories of past battles that had once dominated the conversation whenever his old friends gathered.

I do not look to history to absolve my country of the need to do things right today. Rather I seek to understand the wrongs of yesterday, both to grasp what has brought us to our present reality and to understand the past for itself. The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written elsewhere, take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge. One

The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present.

for men who a short time before had been shooting at him and doing all in their power to wreck his cause, I remembered what my father had said about the South bearing within itself the seeds of defeat, the Confederacy being conceived already moribund. We were sick from an old malady, he said: incurable romanticism and misplaced chivalry, too much Walter Scott and Dumas read too seriously. We were in love with the past, he said; in love with death.

And so modern liberalism is grounded in a paradox: it tries to be "progressive" and forward looking by fixing its gaze backward. It insists that America's shameful past is the best explanation of its current social problems. It looks at the present, but it sees only the past.

Through this liberalism, the government took a kind of benevolent dominion over the fate of minorities and the poor, not to genuinely help them (which would require asking from them the hard work and sacrifice that real development requires), but to achieve immunity for the government from the taint of the past.

Thus, in a culture won over by dissociation, conservatism seems to be in association with America's evil past.