While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real. — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be… — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
Dear past, please stop tapping at my shoulders. I dont want to look back! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I feel like Nashville has really embraced me with open arms. I was a little worried at first; you know, everybody knows… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past. — Josh Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember? — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
