The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
The past is where its supposed to be.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
The past is what the past is.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.