Andy Griffith Quotes

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Young fighters dream of the future. Old fighters seek to recapture the past.

I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.

Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live in that unreal area between the past, the present, and the future.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of things as you live.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.