Past Quotes
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...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.
Susan Howatch
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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
Sister Parish
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The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
Jonathan Lethem
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Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.
Bill Murray
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Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.
Charles Kellogg
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Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.
Sydney Carter
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I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.
George Coyne
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I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.
Carol Matas
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The future has a lot to do with the past.
Dwight Yoakam
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One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.
Eugene Green
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Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.
Terence McKenna
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Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.
Tony Evans
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I go to my past in order to discern the future.
Catherine Doherty
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.
Northrop Frye
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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves
Ray Bradbury
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I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.
Richard Rorty
