Bother Quote by Adam Garfinkle

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

— Ernest Dimnet

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about…

— Toni Morrison

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot…

— C. S. Lewis

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

— Alice Munro

We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much…

— Nicholas Serota

“Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are…

— Erik Pevernagie

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

— Shoghi Effendi

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

— Ziggy Marley

All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a…

— C. V. Wedgwood

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm…

— Karl Lagerfeld

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality.…

— Simon Schama

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

— Michael Cibenko