“Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.” StillsCountryUsePastTermExampleInvolvedConversationGunForgottenEngagedAppropriate Author:Stephen Daldry
“It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.” KnowsPersonsDoeSeemsPastHistoryConversationRootsFolksPleasantAcquaintanceRemarks Author:Sarah Orne Jewett
“History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.” WantSometimesPastVoiceListeningConversationShouting Book:Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History Source: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
“The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.” MayPastVoiceConversationAccountsOccasionsOur SocietyPast PresentPast Present And Future Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott
“Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.” PersonsPastConversationRootsRemarks Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs