Past Quotes
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It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
Adora Svitak
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You gotta live in the moment. I don't care what you've done in your life, it has nothing to do with what you're gonna do or what you can do. The past is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift-that's why they call it the present.
Mike Ditka
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Oh, there at last, life's trials past, We'll meet our loved ones more, Whose feet have trod the path to God, - Not lost, but gone before.
Caroline Norton
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One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.
Georges St-Pierre
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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
Bram Stoker
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How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
William Gaddis
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As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.
Dan Barker
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FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST! MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE!
Eric Thomas
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Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.
Terry Eagleton
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The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
Terry Eagleton
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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
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History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
Hilary Mantel
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I wasn't a cancer, ... It was just a point of having a deep passion for winning, and people viewed that in a different manner or whatnot. That's in the past.
Corey Dillon
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
Will Durant
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Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.
Stephen Sondheim
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In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.
Dania Ramirez
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I write with my past, about the future, for the present.
Eyedea
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The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
Paul Horgan
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Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
Carter G. Woodson
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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
Cressida Cowell
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When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.
Georges St-Pierre
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We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.
Craig D. Idso
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What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood. Yet, there are not very many roles for people of color. How can that be? And why is it just now being addressed?
Stacey Dash
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God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.
Christine Caine