past generations Quotes

There's a Dar Williams song about 'houses that are haunted, with the kids who lie awake and think about other generations past who used to use that dripping sink.' I was one of those kids.

Our past has gone into history.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

We are all citizens of history.

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.

I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.

I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.