Frank Woolley Quotes

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

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.

History takes time... History makes memory.

The Past is utterly indifferent to its worshippers.

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Remembrance of things past.

The past is more than a memory.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

Old Time the clock-setter.

Not everything was lost in the flow of time

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

We possess nothing certainly except the past

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.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

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

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

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.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

The past is not a package one can lay away.