Quotes About Past

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.

Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.

Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.

Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped.

The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

I'm so afraid to love you, But more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII's knights in another life, riding through a great forest.

I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.

It has been said that to teach is to touch the future. Helping students to see the past more clearly, to understand and communicate with others more fully in the present, and to imagine the future more justly is to transform the world. There is nothing more hopeful than that. I started this book with the questions, Is it better? My answer is: Not yet, but it could be. It's up to us to make sure it is. I remain hopeful.

Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it—not the stars as they are now but as they were when their light left them.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

If you could fly backwards into the past at the rate of one year per second, it would take you about half an hour to reach the time of Christ, and a little over three weeks to get back to the beginnings of human life. But it would take you twenty years to reach the dawn of the Cambrian period.

remote in time from us the Cambrian outburst was. If you could fly backwards into the past at the rate of one year per second, it would take you about half an hour to reach the time of Christ, and a little over three weeks to get back to the beginnings of human life. But it would take you twenty years to reach the dawn of the Cambrian period. It was, in other words, an extremely long time ago and the world was a very different

The low doors of so many old European houses, on which those of us who are absentminded tend to crack our heads, are low not because people were shorter and required less headroom in former times, as is commonly supposed. People in the distant past were not in fact all that small. Doors were small for the same reason windows were small: they were expensive.

It was all a long time ago and at this stage we just don't know.