Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a…

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

— Andrew Motion

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

— Tacitus

“The memory is ancient, yet, somehow stronger than the night I was last awake. Isn’t that the thing about memories - some rust before…

— Alka Dimri Saklani

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was…

— Paul Fleischman

“Terrible and ancient and scarred with the endless cold of space, the terrible and ancient things glistened with frozen moisture and colors played across…

— Simon Kurt Unsworth

“Blood never forgets. It has a memory of an ancient path toward home.”

— Carolee Dean

I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and…

— Johnny Depp

“Child, if you forever hide in the shadows, watching life through a window, you will miss the many lessons learned by simply living.”

— Nancy Wald

“I'm starting to realize that I can't be a child forever, that I don't want to be a child forever. I've had my turn,…

— Michael J. Collins

I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to…

— James A. Owen

“Whichever way I went, there would be sadness and a sense of loss. Was this a part of growing up—the agony of making such…

— Anonymous

To have a child is to forever have your heart go walking around outside your body.

— Nishan Panwar

“I didn’t want to invade his privacy; I didn’t want to fight with him; I didn’t want anyone else to ever hurt him. I…

— Jodi Picoult

“Your mother didn't raise you to be a child forever.”

— Tadahiko Nagao

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I…

— Adolf Hitler