Quotes About Past

People like us, we can't be nostalgic. We've no home in the past. Nostalgia is a luxury.

O dor picioarele È™i trebuie s? se aÈ™eze, dar cafenelele ticsite o sperie, tot ce era pl?cut ziua a devenit amenin??tor noaptea, È™i ea coteÈ™te de pe strada principal? pe o strad? l?turalnic? È™i intr? într-una dintre curÈ›i, trebuie s? g?seasc? un ad?post, ea nu aparÈ›ine acestui loc, e înc?rcat? de jalea trecutului È™i de spaima de viitor, exact ca oraÈ™ul ei de baÈ™tin?.

What is done with one's vision of the past has enormous implications for how present realities are handled and the quality of idealism that can be applied to shaping the future.

The present was too urgent to let the past intrude.

The devouring force of the future leered at him at unexpected moments. Then too his daily self seemed to be wearing thin, and the past seeped thru and mastered him for increasingly longer periods.

Funny thing, he said sitting in Zeke's kitchen with his wife, things dat happened long time uhgo used to seem way off, but now it all seems lak it wuz yistiddy. You think it's dead but de past ain't stopped breathin' yet.

Next month and next year were other times. No need to mix them up with the present.

I only aim for fashion that's long dead.

We've made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don't know. I don't care. I'm just grateful for it.

Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.

I went by Andy when I was younger.

I love and have respect and admiration for everybody in my past. I don't have any animosity toward anybody.

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.

I've never really seen archaeology as being any different from history. What I love are the stories of human beings that were around 1,000 years ago and how they lived - archaeology is another aspect to that.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

As far as I remember, I don't have any warrants out for my arrest anymore. I can travel without fear.

Whenever, in after times, I have gone through museums of old furniture in Paris, London, Munich, or Vienna, with the gray-headed custodian who shows you the splendors of time past, I have peopled the rooms with figures from the Collection of Antiquities.

Has he forgotten her? That's the solitary thought which echoes through my soul like a remorse. Ah! dear mamma, have all women to struggle against memories as I do? None but innocent young men should be married to pure young girls. But that's a deceptive Utopia; better have one's rival in the past than in the future.

Human life is sadly fertile in situations where, as a result of either too much meditation or of some catastrophe, our thoughts seem to hold to nothing; they have no substance, no point of departure, and the present has no hooks by which to hold to the past or fasten on the future.

History is, or ought to be, what it was; while romance ought to be "the better world," as was said by Mme. Necker, one of the most distinguished thinkers of the last century.

Is it not necessary, in order to produce the slightest change, that the most daring dreams of the past century become the most trite ideas of the present one?

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.