“We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.”
“Without a past you can't have a future.”
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
“We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.”
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury.”
“We in ancient countries have our past—we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.”