Quotes About Past

History is gossip well told.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future...

Dust is particles of the past. If you clean, you're wiping away all those good memories.

Nature is now. Humans are a tangled mess of past, present, and future.

Sensation invested itself in form and color and radiance, and what his imagination dared, it objectified in some sublimated and magic way. Past, present, and future mingled; and he went on oscillating across the broad, warm world, through

He linked the past with the present, and the eternity behind him throbbed through him in a mighty rhythm to which he swayed as the tides and seasons swayed.

Era más viejo que sus años. Vinculaba el pasado al presente, y la eternidad latía en él en un ritmo poderoso que dominaba todas sus acciones.

Kimdi, neydi, Martin asla öÄŸrenemedi. GeçmiÅŸi olmayan; geleceÄŸi önündeki mezardan, bugünüyse içindeki canh?raÅŸ hayat ateÅŸinden ibaret bir adamd?.

GeçmiÅŸi olmayan ;geleceÄŸi önündeki mezardan,bugünüyse içindeki canh?raÅŸ hayat ateÅŸinden ibaret bir adamd?.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, 1816

There are many gifts that are unique in man; but at the centre of them all, the root from which all knowledge grows, lies the ability to draw conclusions from what we see to what we do not see, to move our minds through space and time, and to recognise ourselves in the past on the steps to the present. All over these caves the print of the hand says: 'This is my mark. This is man.

There was an acceptance at face value in New York, as if everyone had just been born, with no past heritage to acknowledge or hide.

them, and all our old 78 records, all the afternoon.

the entire area was once apple orchards – all down to Henry the Eighth and his desire for an abundant supply of fresh fruit in days of yore.

You should allow yourself to indulge in this remembrance. When you face the past, all you will see is that which has gone before. So I have some advice: Let this be your turning point. Have done with it, and turn to face the future. Only then will the future rise up to meet you. Only then will the distress pass.

The wounds of the past could always be camouflaged. Erasing them to extinguish all trace was the greater challenge.

Then as each month, each year passed, it was as if the memory of you - of us… the explosion - were encased in a fine tissue-paper.' … 'I felt as if I were looking through a window to my own past, and instead of being transparent, my view was becoming more and more opaque, until eventually the time had passed. The time for coming to see you had passed.

The lie is the future, one may venture to say [...]. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past.

Que aunque el gusto nunca más vuelve a ser el mismo, en la vida los olvidos no suelen durar.

too many people who had come west to escape the past

the fundamental fact that law directs the ongoing of society. It is rooted in the past, determines the present, and protects the future.

To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

To accept one's past—one's history—is not the same thing as drowning it it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American white men still nourish the illusion that there is some means of recovering the European innocence, of returning to a state in which black men do not exist.