Our Past Quotes

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

Passion has determined our past. Attitude will determine our future.

You can be aware of your past without being it.

We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

[Paper Girls] is very much is about how we are thinking about our past and growing up.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.

We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.

For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are?

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

We don't have to be defined by the things that we did or didn't do in our past- Four

All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!