Dreams Quote by James Anthony Froude

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts…

— Anonymous

The resulting prints of 'History's Shadow' make the invisible visible and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself and the continuous…

— David Maisel

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the…

— Rudolfo Anaya

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

— Paul Scott

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

— Farley Mowat

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time…

— Robert Harris

The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers…

— Anne Michaels

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

— Phillip Lopate

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise…

— Frances Harper

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

— Helen Dunmore