Quotes About Past

I have not forgotten those days, I have only forgotten how simply they seemed to occur …

The courage to live when the best days were past.

A veces uno es consciente de cuándo están sucediéndose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre mirando al pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas.

our collective nightmares are connected to the sins of our national past, papered over or repressed in the making of America and its greatness; on

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

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The cold Duke was afraid of Now, for Now has warmth and urgency, and Then is dead and buried.

what a community erects on its historical landscape not only sums up its view of the past but also influences its possible futures.

History through red eyes offers our children a deeper understanding than comes from encountering the past as a story of inevitable triumph by the good guys.

Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we arrived at this point. Understanding our past is central to our ability to understand ourselves and the world around us. We need to know our history, and according to sociologist C. Wright Mills, we know we do.8

There is a reciprocal relationship between truth about the past and justice in the present. When we achieve justice in the present, remedying some past event or practice, then we can face it and talk about it more openly, precisely because we have made it right. It has become a success story.

The duty of the historian," Gordon Craig has reminded us, "is to restore to the past the options it once had." Craig also pointed out that this is an appropriate way to teach history and to make it memorable.

Rethinking Our Past: Recognizing Facts, Fiction, and Lies in American History Social Science in the Courtroom

The opposite of racism is antiracism, of course, or what we might call racial idealism or equalitarianism, and it is still not clear whether it will prevail. In this struggle, our history textbooks offer little help. Just as they underplay white racism, they also neglect racial idealism. In doing so, they deprive students of potential role models to call upon as they try to bridge the new fault lines that will spread out in the future from the great rift in our past.

Making the present seem inevitable robs history of all its life and much of its meaning.

Many Years before without the New Technologies Life was more Peaceful and Simpler.

He began to play Yesterday, an old Beatles song.

Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present . . .

In the convex driving-mirror she could see, dwindling rapidly, the patch of road where they had stood; and she wondered why it had never occurred to her before that you cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

Badger nodded towards the trenches. "Woolley and the rest of 'em dig to uncover past civilizations. We dig to bury our own.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Ha de aprender mi filosofía. Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero.

his feelings as to a first, strong attachment; sentences begun which he could not finish, his half averted eyes and more than half expressive glance; all, all declared that he had a heart returning to her at least; that anger, resentment, avoidance, were no more; and that they were succeeded, not merely by friendship or regard, but by the tenderness of the past. Yes, some share of the tenderness of the past. she could not contemplate the change as implying less. He must love her.