past Quotes

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.