Quotes About Past

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

There is a history in all men's lives.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

Or am I speaking to a triggered part of you, to your adversarial you and me consciousness? The triggered part of you sees things through the prism of the past. I believe there's no such thing as overreacting; it's just that what someone is reacting to may no longer be what's in front of them.

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.

The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us.

When your surroundings are infused with memories of the past, you tend to remain in the past. You are prone to keep looking back rather than focusing forward on the new things God has for you.

Lost time is never found again." ~ Benjamin Franklin

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?

Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.

it is the historian's job to find coherence in the past, nothing in history can be regarded as accidental. For accident-mere chance or "fortune"-explains nothing, and a past composed of accidents is as unhistorical as a past of necessary consequences.

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.

The past is closed up inside its own depressing little museum of faded styles and codes and anticipations; you can't re-enter it