David Halberstam Quotes

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.

We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

I'm tired of talking about where we've been. I'm more interested in talking about where we're going.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

I'm not living in the past, I don't want to go back - I don't want to "Make America Great Again." No, no, no.

I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.