Mary Daly Quotes

The future has a lot to do with the past.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

Call us the future from your past.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

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.

We are tomorrow's past.

History didn't begin yesterday.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Remember the past - and await the future.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

We are the echo of the future.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Without a past you can't have a future.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future