Vera Wang Quotes

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

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

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

The past is where its supposed to be.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

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.

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

Without history one remains always a child.

You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

I appreciate where I come from. I never forget.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

I always had my roots in the past.

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

With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

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

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

You want to try to find your heritage.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.