Cherishing the Past Quotes

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

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.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.

Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

Nostalgia is a very human trait.

Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.

I'm very much a nostalgic optimist.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.