Cities Quote by Kenneth Tynan

“She did not know. She did not mind...She had a sense of being past everything, through everything, out of everything...-and one could be in…

— Virginia Woolf

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?…

— Djuna Barnes

“In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

We need all three senses of time - a sense of the future, a sense of the present, and a sense of the past…

— Fred Alan Wolf

“When we lack a sense of past and future, the present feels like a shaky platform, an uncertain basis for action.”

— Timothy Snyder

“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

“A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. The former is concrete and…

— Robert A. Nisbet

Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a memory, they…

— Israel Rosenfield

“Are you telling me my entire life has been a dream?" "Not your life, Greg, your past." "Is there a distincition?" "Of course there…

— Daniel Quinn

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

— Amanda Harlech

No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out…

— Aminatta Forna

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have…

— Cesar Pelli

Bath was dusty and a little shabby when we moved here. It did look its age and you felt its history in its streets…

— Ken Loach

“. . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present,…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

“That's when I understand why I dance. For some people, it's the only way to make sense of the past, to get to the…

— Carol M. Tanzman