Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of…

“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring to studying…

— Jean-Henri Fabre

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

— Edward Augustus Freeman

I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by the history of the past

— Thomas Jefferson

“But we have to reconsider our whole approach to the history of the past—have we so taught it through ‘Drum and Trumpet’ that the…

— Parents' National Education Union

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved…

— Gerda Lerner

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking…

— Sarah Dessen

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone…

— Olivia d'Abo

“What are we if we are not products of our history? History is not in our past but forms us in the present. And…

— H.O. Charles

I want to give meaning to the history of the past, but to do it in real time, as if it were lived. This…

— Albert Serra

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

— David Shannon

Sometimes, we should know that ex is like a history. A history is a past. That certain people will never forget.

— Shakay Kaichi

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

— Laura Esquivel

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

— Ernest Dimnet

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the…

— Frederick Jackson Turner

Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified…

— Mark Hopkins