Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.

I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Lince Dorado and I go way back.

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

I grew up loving history.

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

I believe when two people are in the same profession, they understand each other better.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

I wouldn't fight Tyron Woodley; we go way, way back.

Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

Everything about me remembers everything about you

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

The past is never where you think you left it.