Able Quote by Storm Jameson

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

— Wendell Phillips

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

— Joan Didion

There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what…

— Daisaku Ikeda

When the past is certain to be left to collect dust they will only be able to open into the future. The first spring…

— Fated To Love

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

— Adele Parks

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a…

— Marcel Proust

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and,…

— Yukio Mishima

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a…

— Robyn Hitchcock

The past is a closed door.

— Margaret Atwood

The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.

— Parker J. Palmer

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

— Paul Scott

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

— Henri Bergson