My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
