#past

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#lose #memories #past #ryan #some

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#after #away #been #could #felt

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#because #doing #during #erase #her

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. ↗

— Hermann Oberth

#barely #brightly #discernible #educational #forward

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#mind #never #past #see #world

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#duke #friend #i #jokes #life

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#asian countries #been #countries #had #history

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. ↗

— Ben Okri

#africa #come #future #how #jazz

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it. ↗

— John Oldham

#going #i #i am #past #quit

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ↗

— George Orwell

#future #past #present #who