Amitava Kumar Quotes

The future has a lot to do with the past.

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

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

The past is a present force.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday

The past is the father of the present.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

Nothing is ever behind us.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.

Rich with the spoils of time.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

The past is our very being.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.