Rick Riordan Quotes

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea.

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

I just don't like to talk about the past.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

I'm still digesting the '90s. It takes some time to get perspective.

When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.