Shirley Hufstedler Quotes

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

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

I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.

some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.

Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.

Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.

My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did the old. I believe as firmly as in my youth that humanity will surmount the era of poverty and war. Life will be happier and more beautiful for all. I believe in the GOLDEN AGE.

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.