Quotes About Time

Live in the moment. Moments make history.

I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Each day is a little bit of history

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.