In The Past Quotes

Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

Never let yesterday use up today.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain.

Youth is after all just a moment but it is the moment the spark that you always carry in your heart.

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

The good old days were never that good believe me. The good new days are today and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

There are two days about which nobody should ever worry and these are yesterday and tomorrow.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men.

These are the stories that never never die that are carried like seed into a new country are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Respect the past in the full measure of its deserts but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order ... the continuous thread of revelation.

The best compliment we can pay our past is to prophetically and bravely face today and tomorrow.

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

As the dew to the blossom the bud to the bee As the scent to the rose are those memories to me.

Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.

The past is a guidepost not a hitching post.

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments failures and even tragedies and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

The road was new to me as roads always are going back.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

Yesterday I lived today I suffer tomorrow I die but I still think fondly today and tomorrow of yesterday.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.

The past is that which we possess fully and in whole.

The past is the tomorrow that got away.

No past is dead for us but only sleeping love.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

That sign of old age extolling the past at the expense of the present.

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

The past not merely is not fugitive it remains present.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year and that's better.

People are always asking about the good old days. I say why don't you say the good "now" days? Isn't "now" the only time you're living?

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

The universe is made of stories not of atoms.

Why must we hide, Behind walls built high?N' blame our lives, On him, her, I?

...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing.

Look to the past only to find ways to improve your present and future, never to find regrets. Don’t let what has happened in the past limit your life now. Let your past expand your life.

«Regrets»... I regret how timid and meek I was back then... always telling myself that I couldn't do anything, never even daring to try. That's definitely something I regret. " (p.330)

Spreading rumours is our national past time

A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladies that are blocking it and they've got an attitude, and they don't want you to go past them.

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.