The one charm of the past is that it is the past. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Category: Past
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Wendell Berry Category: Past
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins Category: Past
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville Category: USA Patriotic
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. – J.G. Holland Category: Birds
