Quotes About Past

I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.

No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.

I have good memories of Bangalore.

I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

My greatest inspiration is memory.

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

After I was invited to take over the Selecao, one of the first things I did was to call Marcelo and Thiago Silva. I wanted to get a feel for the players and we did not mention what had gone on in the past, that is behind us.

I expected that someone was going to out me; you just can't go through life with a microscope on your career without someone delving into your past a little bit.

Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.

I'm always excited to play my hometown, but I'm kind of past the Milwaukee thing.

The reality is that the past is gone; all that's left of it now is impressions or images lingering in the depths of our consciousness. Yet these images from the past continue to haunt us, block us, and otherwise influence our behavior in the present, causing us to say and do things we don't really want. We lose all our freedom.

The past is still here in the form of the present. We may think that there isn't anything we can do about the past anymore, but there is.

Transforming the past is possible, thanks to meditation practice.

There is no evidence when we look to the past for any precedent for the rate of change in atmospheric composition that we're causing, and the rates of change in climate that we can expect, as we continue to burn fossil fuels and elevate these greenhouse gas concentrations.

It really is a sign of appalling feebleness, I thought, if people fill their apartments with furniture belonging to past ages rather than their own, the harshness and brutality of which they are unable to endure. What they do, it seems to me, is surround themselves with the softness of the dead past that cannot answer back.

Wir leben doch immer in der falschen Zeit hat er gesagt wir wollen alle nur in der Vergangenheit leben die haben wir uns so schön eingerichtet die Vergangenheit wie wir wollen kein Mensch will die Zukunft

History is story, too.

What I have done in the past is past mending; what I will do in the future is a worry not worth the candle, for there is no way I can know what will happen next. But in this moment—and only in this moment—I am in control.

Bygones would never be complete bygones till she was a bygone herself.

Love is an utterly bygone, sorry, worn-out, miserable thing with me- for him or anyone else.

I went, and knelt, and scooped my hand As if to drink, into the brook, And a faint figure seemed to stand Above me, with the bygone look.