Quotes About Past

The United States does not carry baggage from a colonial past as do European countries.

I've collected comics for many, many years, but I've usually collected older ones for whatever reason.

I am not going to comment on what I did or did not say back in the late '90s.

I was 6 when communism was finished.

I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

If I have a connection with someone, I'd like to think that they'd be able to respect that connection enough and respect themselves enough to not care about my past - that they would want to see what happens between us.

With my research, I really need absolute confirmation of what actually happened, direct physical connections to the past.

Words have consequences and SAG-AFTRA members deserve leadership that is interested in the path forward, not a return to the divisiveness of the past. I am proud to provide that leadership.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

I understand that football is only a certain time in my life, and my degree will help me sustain my life well past football.

I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past.

As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'

In 'Sweet Days of Discipline,' the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites her home.

I was bashing Israel in the past because nobody else was exposing its true record. Many people are doing it now, so I switched hats from a critic of Israel to a diplomat who wants to resolve the conflict. I have not changed, but I think the spectrum has moved.

Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?

with her ex and didn't want to be