Zora Neale Hurston 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, The Present, For the Future

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

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

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

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

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

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

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 have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

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 can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

I don't think it's helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don't believe in anymore.

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.