Past Quotes

"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past" "I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free" "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history." "There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past" "The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand" "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were" "The past is never dead. It's not even past." "Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past." "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it" "The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you" "You can never plan the future by the past" "What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past" "And no matter how many lovers you kill you can't kill your first" "Revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past"