Gene Tierney Quotes

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

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.

It's good to look back and know where you come from.

It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

I feel like our history and our roots make us who we are.

I think that our comfort is in our history.

Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

I always had my roots in the past.

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

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

You can't run from your roots.

Remember where you came from.

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

I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

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.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.