Van Jones Quotes

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

The future has a lot to do 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.

We are tomorrow's past.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

We are sons of yesterday, not of the morning. The past is our mortal mother, no dead thing. Our future constantly reflects her to the soul.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

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

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

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

One faces the future with one's past.

They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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

The now, the here, through which all future plunges into the past.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

The past is a present force.

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

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

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

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

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.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.