I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

The past is a bucket of ashes

— Carl Sandburg

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here…

— Carl Sandburg

History is a bucket of ashes.

— Samuel Butler

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“A description of Zaira as it is today should contain all Zaira’s past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it…

— Italo Calvino

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

— Italo Calvino

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

— Ma Rainey

People tell us to for get about the past, but then they end up bringing it up agian!

— Destineebug

That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the…

— Colum McCann

“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

He said that he will never let you cry,he will always be there for you no matter how hard the situation is,that he will…

— Zhra

You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if…

— Pablo Neruda

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's…

— Marilyn Manson

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots…

— Anonymous

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

— Anonymous