579 quotes found
“As the dew to the blossom the bud to the bee As the scent to the rose are those memories to me.”
“The past is a guidepost not a hitching post.”
“The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments failures and even tragedies and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.”
“The road was new to me as roads always are going back.”
“Yesterday I lived today I suffer tomorrow I die but I still think fondly today and tomorrow of yesterday.”
“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”
“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”
“The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.”
“The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.”
“Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?”
“No past is dead for us but only sleeping love.”
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.”
“That sign of old age extolling the past at the expense of the present.”
“The past not merely is not fugitive it remains present.”
“People are always asking about the good old days. I say why don't you say the good "now" days? Isn't "now" the only time you're living?”
“Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.”
“The universe is made of stories not of atoms.”
“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
“Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.”
