Past Quotes

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Jay-Z
In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

G-Eazy
- Up
- Song
- Start

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

A. R. Rahman
- Family
- Mother
- Father
That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

Khaled Hosseini
- Time
- Long
- Past
I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.

Washed Out
- Done
- Want
- Connection
You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

Pablo Sandoval
- You
- Past
- Mistakes
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

Wendell Willkie
- Political
- Past
- Beliefs
On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

Warren Ellis
- Long
- Children
- Home