Laura van den Berg Quotes

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

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

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

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

The past is a present force.

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

The past has a lobby …; the future does not have a lobby.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

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.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Events, which, considered simply by themselves, seem to be of but little moment, assume a very different aspect when viewed in the light of their causes and consequences. Actions, either of individuals or of bodies of men, insignificant in their own proper nature, often start up into an unsuspected importance when viewed as indication of the state of heart from which they spring.

The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Never forget

Those whose deeds have once incurred our hatred, can never become entitled to our regard; nor can those who have once merited our affection ever after absolutely cancel their claim.

Making history does not necessarily change history.

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

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

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

History is a heavy thing everywhere.