Darrell Issa Quotes

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

The past is our very being.

He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

My inspiration is love and history.

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

There is properly no history; only biography.

Biography is the best history.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

Everybody's past and history informs them.

We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other creatures, humans have a beginning and an ending, and in between lies their story.

Our memories are the keys to our past and everything we've ever worked for, fought for, and dreamed of.

It's good to know where you've come from.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

The past is more than a memory.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

What man is, only his history tells.