Alive Quote by Cressida Cowell

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

— Cressida Cowell

A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

— Peter Ackroyd

The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn.

— Stormie Omartian

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

— David McCullough

Past is a good place to visit .. but not a good place to stay.

— Anonymous

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.

— Tony Robbins

The past is a good place to visit but certainly not a good place to say.

— Shizzle Monkey

The past is always an invented land.

— Orhan Pamuk

The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

— Henry Kirke White

We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past… The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction...…

— Thomas L. Thompson