Brown Quote by 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

You read the past in some old faces.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

— Cressida Cowell

The past assumes the nature of the present.

— Oliver Stone

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new…

— Susan Sontag

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second…

— Aberjhani

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

— Margaret Bourke-White

“The present is shaped by the past.”

— Amine A. Ayad

The past is getting clearer and clearer

— Bulat Okudzhava

The past is where its supposed to be.

— Jason Newsted

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin