Tana French Quotes

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

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.

France is an old country that does not forget.

History takes time... History makes memory.

The past is a present force.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.

The past is where its supposed to be.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

A lot of people may not read the history of their own country, but they carry on memories transmitted by previous generations. They're trying to achieve something, [they] have their mission and anger -- all this is fed by past experience of history.

Each of us has these little desks that you can’t write anything on. But inside the drawer the names of the previous senators using that desk are carved in the wood.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.