Quotes About Past

communism was in a rush, it had no time for bourgeois things like the past or the environment.

There comes a time in life when you must decide what you will do. That time is now for the past is already done and the future does not wait.

The person who has some awareness of the past knows how to fashion a rudder and which direction land is.

The person unaware of history is like a rudderless boat just floating out in the middle of the ocean, hostages to the waves and currents.

These interviews, sometimes they jog your memories, like what you were doing when you were 10 years old. They're always searching for your past; they can keep you living there. I want to go on to the future.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

Islam and the West have clashed in the past and have not clashed. There is nothing inevitable about it.

Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.

Italy has no colonial past in Iran.

At the beginning of 'Will and Grace', I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we've seen in the past. And I thought that was my role.

At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.

Now, you can bring up the past, but anybody can bring up the past. Even my daughter brings up the past sometimes. She makes a lot of jokes about the things that I've done.

Uncontaminated by humans, they are definitely closer to living in the now. Our problem is that we live in the past and we live in the future, but we very rarely dwell in the now. They are so much in harmony with nature, we surely could use them as a model.

The past affects the present even without our being aware of it.

Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

She didn't bother to understand it all; it was history --boring boring boring.

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Nothing later equalled that first distant glimpse

Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

I'm so damned literary and at the same time the waters rushing past remind me of nothing I'm so damn empty