Quotes on Remembering The Past

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for the generations which follow us.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

The Warrior remembers the past.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.