Amity Shlaes Quotes

History takes time... History makes memory.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

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.

Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

The past is more than a memory.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

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

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

The past is where its supposed to be.

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

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

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;

I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.

Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.

Young fighters dream of the future. Old fighters seek to recapture the past.

I don't think you can erase history.