Quotes by American Authors - Page 39

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order ... the continuous thread of revelation.
Eudora Welty
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past because we have survived.
Susan Sontag
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe
The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
Artie Shaw
In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey
What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
Mary Jo Putney
These are the stories that never never die that are carried like seed into a new country are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.
Meridel Le Sueur
Truth has no beginning.
Mary Baker Eddy
I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
Burton Hillis
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Fulton Oursler
There are two days about which nobody should ever worry and these are yesterday and tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
The past is never completely lost khowever extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.
Gordon Wright
The good old days were never that good believe me. The good new days are today and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.
Henrietta Zolde
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
Abraham Lincoln
Never let yesterday use up today.
Richard H. Nelson
I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano
The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.
Kahlil Gibran
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
Anaïs Nin
The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries rinsed of debris sweetened judiciously and served in small portions not very often.
Laura Palmer
Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead you never look back.
Ann Richards
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford
Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather with the phenomenon of memory.
Patricia Hampl
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causes you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferber
Forget the past and live the present hour.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
Here lies my past Goodbye I have kissed it Thank you kids I wouldn't have missed it.
Ogden Nash
Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.
Ellen Gilchrist
Judgement comes from experience and great judgement comes from bad experience.
Robert Packwood
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The past is never dead-it is not even past.
William Faulkner
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.
Amelia Earhart
The good old days. The only good days are ahead.
Alice Childress
Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
Hal Boyle
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.
Lillian Eichler Watson
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.
George Santayana
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.
Doug Larson
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Lillian Hellman
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George W. Ball
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
John Beecher
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
Archibald MacLeish
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
Toledo Blade
Our unconsciousness is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.
Milton R. Sapirstein
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
Peter De Vries
That is the consolation of a little mind you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Frank Moore Colby
Of course he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.
Arnold Schoenberg
Gluttony is an emotional escape a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
Albert Einstein
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
Kin Hubbard
Pride avarice and envy are in every home.
Thornton Wilder
I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.
Dorothy H. Rath
Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there.
Walter Cronkite