Sentence examples for lives before us from inspiring English sources

We don't want information only; we want to know what to think of the lives before us.

Even the minor parts have weight here, and we're always aware of a multiplicity of lives before us, jostling and nestling and striking against one another.

So firmly do we hold onto the mothers of our memories that even as adults faced with some irrefutable proof of their lives before and apart from us, we still insist on our own versions of their lives.

We are controlled by people who lived before us.

The generations which lived before us left us a heritage of noble ideals; let us hold fast to these".

All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment," she says.

And everyone who lived before us, whispering secrets in bedrooms and parks and hair salons and caves.

But what really matters is appreciating the flavours and settings of the past, evoking the sense of oneness with the people who lived before us.

Rather, it is a subjective condition, a feeling or an intuition that we are in some profound sense different from the people who lived before us.

But on another it works as a paean to the past, using biblical imagery and British mythology and history to imagine the lives of those who have lived before us leaving an imprint of their existence: through family resemblances, through the things they've left behind, via the houses they lived in, or perhaps by returning after death to the places where they were happy.

And 'that multitude which no man can number' would call to mind not merely a vague sense that 'well yes, many people have lived before us' but the long, long lists of names that were then being collated and would in time be etched on to war memorials.