past Quotes

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.

The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator.

The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old - considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors - because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements.