Quotes About Progress

Still, Isabelle and Gaëtan kept going. They walked all day

Sometimes you had to go backward in order to go forward. This truth they knew, even as young as they were. But there was another truth, one they shied away from, one they tried to protect each other from. Sometimes it was painful to go back.

Never has the chasm between progress and poverty been so hauntingly large in this country as it is today. We are in the clutches of an economic depression so carnivorous and insatiable, it's eating the very fabric of our lives. We are sacrificing our children to it, our future. And no one, it seems, is listening.

Ten Days That Shook the World, by John Reed.

hammers falling

folks who hang on to the past miss their chance for a future.

You know the thing about history, Elsa? It's over. Already dead and gone.

We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

I am relying on you—a criminal and a communist—to help me make a difference.

Behind them, attached to the harness, was a

Generally, Madame, the failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach." Breaths

Men tell stories. Women get on with it.

I would tell you that the things we do in life can be mistakes, but the road we find ourselves on never is.

We all suffer losses. But it is how we choose to move ahead that matters, isn't it? We must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

It's not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.

So you can't compare the present with the past, not really, because you're a different person than you were [when Patrick was alive]. You have to look forward to the things you want, not back at the things you once had.

We must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

But in life, Emily, for every path you decide to walk down, there's a path you've decided to turn away from. Each fork in the road leads us further from where we began. And one cannot look back. Only forward. Otherwise, you'll get stuck standing in place.

We all make mistakes. But life goes on, and we can always become better. It's not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.

must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

Some chapters must be finished, though, some books closed.

They stopped in Épagny, Allonzier-la-Caille, Cruseilles, Copponex, Beaumont, Neydens, and Archamps before finally pulling into Collonges-sous-Salève, where the driver

One's reward for marching through the decades is a gradual process of erasure.

all make mistakes. But life goes on, and we can always become better. It's not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.