William Morris Quotes

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

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

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.

Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

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.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

One faces the future with one's past.

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

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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

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

Society is a partnership not only by those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

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

History is not the past. History is the present. We carry our history with us.

I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

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

The past is a present force.

History is written not only for posterity but by posterity as well.

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry