Quotes About Past

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

History is never surprising after it happens.

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

Our history is not our destiny.

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

Our past has gone into history.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

History is merely gossip

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

History is His story.