Past Connection Quotes

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

I wouldn't fight Tyron Woodley; we go way, way back.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.

I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.

What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

You see something you like?" I asked, echoing something I'd said to him ling ago, when he'd caught me in a compromising position at school. "Lots," he said. -Rose (Roza) to Dimitri

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.