I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.
We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.
If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
It's time that we gave our children what we owe them, which is a richer understanding of the past and of the importance of all that Germany has done for England and that England has done for Germany.
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.
I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.
