#past

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#epic #family #give #his #i

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ↗

— Euripides

#future #his #learning #loses #neglects

I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity. ↗

— Chris Evans

#anonymity #been #films #i #maintain

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands. ↗

— Linda Evans

#husbands #i #in the past #money #never

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years. ↗

— Tom Brady

#better #big #bit #bread #cooking

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

#common #common people #history #memory #past

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? ↗

— David Byrne

#future #instead #invest #music #past

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live. ↗

— Sarah Brightman

#answers #i #i always #in the past #just

You cannot survive if you do not know the past. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#know #past #survive #you

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us. ↗

— David Brin

#civilization #could #culture #down #feed