Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

Literature is always about bygone times. It's always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.

I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

The past is what the past is.

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

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

I exist only in the past.

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.