Concerned Quote by Anonymous

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

— Walter Lippmann

“Our history was by then nothing but rocks, some scratches in the dirt, some huts, fuzzy memories passed on carelessly from the old to…

— Joe R. Lansdale

“Ten thousand or more years before that our species migrated between continents on rafts of seaweed and surmounted mountains in little more than animal…

— Scott Carney

People that worry about the past are still living there.

— Itsme867

“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and…

— William James

“Was the decline and decay of those houses inevitable, absent the political pressure and military conflicts of those times? How do they look now,…

— Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

“Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is…

— Ron Rash

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

— Bernard Malamud

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

— John Osborne

When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are…

— John Dos Passos

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present,…

— Robert Kennedy