Past History Quotes

Past History Quote of the day

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Our past has gone into history.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

You can't just wipe away your history.

History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent.

Don't use your past history as an excuse to be miserable. Use your past as a testament to show the world just how far you have come.

The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.

Never judge someone by their relatives.

The pathway traced with blood and tears, and dust of all our father's dead, Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red, Fade to the mist of nameless years.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people who are centuries removed from us their thoughts, their will…

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

Of that time, there is still much we do not know.

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

When the past comes knocking, don't answer. It has nothing new to tell you.

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past!

The past is magnetic. It draws us in.

Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.

It's OK to glance in the rear-view to see where you've been, but stay focused on where you are going!

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.