The Past Quotes

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

I guess no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your past.

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone."

We're not prisoners of the past.

Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.

I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Liberia can move on and break from the past. That is very important for us to try to achieve our development goals and reconcile our nation.

Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Embrace your past, but live for now.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.

I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.