#sent

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#endless #equally #frequently #hence #history

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#concerned #cupboard #interfere #past #photograph

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#becomes #central #concerns #even #exists

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent. ↗

— Donal Logue

#booze #car #could #former #friends

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#color #create #culture #develop #experiences

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God. ↗

— Trent Lott

#blue #both #defined #god #hollywood

I move to appoint a Committee to correspond with the neighboring colonies, on the present important Crisis. ↗

— Isaac Low

#colonies #committee #correspond #crisis #i

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#beautiful #every #every man #feels #instinctively

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#children #day #forth #god #hope

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. ↗

— Percival Lowell

#any #essential #imagination #learning #points