Grandma Moses Quotes

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

I only remember the future.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Young fighters dream of the future. Old fighters seek to recapture the past.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

Remember the past - and await the future.

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

Remembrance of things past.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.