Events Quote by James Russell Lowell

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

— Michael Ende

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider…

— Arthur Hugh Clough

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

— William Ralph Inge

Everything that happens today is like something in the past, but it's also unlike things in the past. We never know until an event…

— H. W. Brands

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.

— Georges Rouault

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“We forget that 'old' in age typically does not mean 'old' in terms of relevance.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end…

— Marcel Proust

“It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once only; it…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

— Lenore Terr

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman