Life Quote by Steve Fowler

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

— Anonymous

Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all…

— James Joyce

“We know very well that we have ancestors. But our ancestors are not only human. We have animal ancestors; we have plant ancestors; and…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

— Samuel Pisar

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history,…

— Sylvia Earle

For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

— Iain Pears

Forgetting the past is forgetting our roots and our basic structure.

— Anonymous

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human…

— Uta Hagen

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

— Jeremy Paxman

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

— John Steinbeck

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of…

— Samuel Johnson