Preceding Events Quotes

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

What is past is prologue.

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the event. And in today already walks tomorrow.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.