Forget Quote by Jon Meacham

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

— Julie Burchill

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good…

— Peter Benchley

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to…

— Amma Asante

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

— Sylvia Plath

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

— Jared Diamond

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

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

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

— Italo Svevo

Our past has gone into history.

— William McKinley

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

— Jesmyn Ward

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

— Ken Burns

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

— Robin Hobb