Katharine Weymouth Quotes

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

The past is where its supposed to be.

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.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

For those things which were done either by our fathers or ancestors, and in which we ourselves had no share, I can scarcely call our own.

I always had my roots in the past.

It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

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

Remember where you came from.

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

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

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.

History takes time... History makes memory.

How will we know it’s us without our past?

… history does not belong to us but rather we to it

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.