Dwight Yoakam Quotes

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

It embodied what came before. Illuminated what came after.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

I desire no future that will break the ties with 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.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

The past is a present force.

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

We are all the beneficiaries of those who have gone before us.

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.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

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

We are products of the past and its useful to remember that as we move into the future.

I want to make sure people are connected with the future as well as the past.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

The past is the father of the present.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

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