Max von Sydow Quotes

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

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

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.

Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

The past is more than a memory.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

The past is dead except for the life you give it

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

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

Never, ever forget history.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

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.

Museums, I love museums.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

I truly believe that to write about it and talk about it is the only way to prevent it from happening again.

History takes time... History makes memory.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

Don't ever forget the history! It will make and change who we are!

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Commemorating the present and looking forward to a more promising future has always depended on learning from the past..

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

I'm part of history.

As I walk to my office every morning, I know I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me.