Decency Quote by Mary McAleese

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

— Katherine Center

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.

— Sharon Cameron

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

— Patti Davis

Remembrance of things past.

— William Shakespeare

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

— George Orwell

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

— Mark Twain

You'd like to think we're past certain things, the way we treat people. I thought we were at a time where you love your…

— Eric Reid

That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be…

— Joseph Roth

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

— Sreenivasan

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

— Pat Barker

To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence…

— Anonymous

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. People gather bundles of sticks…

— Neil Postman