Best past & echoes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.”

Pain Past Mistake Cry Tears Shed Echoes Ache Past Mistakes Life Mistakes

Author:Guy Finley

“The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.”

Past Behinds History Stealing Loud Echoes Hints

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.”

People Writing Has Beens Today Past House Memories Marriage Streets Century Fields Difficulty Lips Chiefs Association Echoes English Words

Author:Virginia Woolf

“All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of now, from all the worlds like ours, only fractionally different. And we follow them with our eyes, ghost things, and the humans see nothing.”

World Humans Different Eye Past Watches Creatures Cat Ghost Infinity Passages Echoes

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.”

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“Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.”

“The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows.”

Important Happens Past Space Gone Events Meaningless Entity Echoes Here And Now Imports Space Between Containing

Author:Tim Lebbon

“We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.”

Looks Past Memories Laughter Died Ghost Vain Gray Cheer Echoes Mirth Departed Old Time Good Cheer

Author:Agnes Repplier

“The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.”

Mind Past Impression Echoes Phonograph

Book:The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

“We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.”

People May Moments Past Force Wise Ghost Obligation Echoes Strain Sanctuary

Author:Ken Burns

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