#past

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#interpretation #past #significance #us

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. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beautiful #because #complete #emotion #emotions

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. ↗

— Peter Berger

#changing #flexible #happened #interprets #malleable

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#been #consecutive #past #school #trust

Forgiveness means letting go of the past. ↗

— Gerald Jampolsky

#go #letting #letting go #means #past

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#long #long time #past #present #takes

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#black #civilization #engaged #immigrant #in the past

Look back, and smile on perils past. ↗

— Walter Scott

#back #look #past #perils

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bottled #essence #labels #names #our

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#change #culture #free #future #now