Quotes and Sayings About Past
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
-- Abraham Verghese -
The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.
-- Ada Leverson -
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
There is no future for a people who deny their past.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
-- Adam Garfinkle -
The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
-- Adam Gopnik -
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
-- Adam Johnson