Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future. Paulo Freire
Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward. Martha Graham
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. LaToya Jackson
One wonders how the literary revisionists and canon cleansers can bear to take the money. Imagine a school of sixteenth century art criticism that spent its time contently jeering at the past for not knowing about perspective. Martin Amis
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it. Pearl Bailey
Learn about the future by looking at the past. Asian-indian Proverb