Quotes About Time

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

All history is contemporary history.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

History doesn't have a curfew.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

History is like a constantly changing tree.