Enid Muriel Lyons Quotes

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.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

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

Commemorating the present and looking forward to a more promising future has always depended on learning from the past..

These guys from the past really motivate me, much respect to the guys before me and the ones after me.

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

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

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

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

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.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

The past is where its supposed to be.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.