Henry Ford Quotes

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

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

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

Never, ever forget history.

History is more or less bunk.

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

There is no nation in the world greater, older or more honorable than the Turkish nation, nor has one been seen in the history of humanity.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

I really don’t make history; I preserve it.

All states need to hallow themselves with the dignity of the past.

Ancient histories provide windows to knowing current affairs.