About Quote by Sam Phillips

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

— James Stephens

I recognize that the person I was in my past is not the person I am today. That person did the very best they…

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A mans present can sometimes be judged by his past.

— Vikrant Parsai

“We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.”

— David Richo

My father was possessed of an extraordinary romantic idealism, an unwavering belief in certain principles. He was always talking about the past. Always. Of…

— Michael Portillo

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

— Anonymous

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with…

— Hilary Mantel

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what…

— Gerald W. Johnson

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

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a…

— Honore de Balzac

“Identification with the past is an intuitive, imaginative process which seeks as its fulfillment a perception not merely of the relevancy of the past,…

— Robert W. Hanning

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,…

— William James