#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

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

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

As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read. ↗

— Todd Burpo

#believe #book #dad #exaggerated #forever

My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#baked #cheese #favorite #gets #i

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#fell #forest #friend #heard #none