Past Quotes
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The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.
Mimi Rogers
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Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
Carter G. Woodson
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
Erica Jong
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I've definitely seen people get angry or really uncomfortable with stuff I've made in the past. And my stand-up, if you could call what I do stand-up, is quite aggressive, too.
Brett Gelman
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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
Alice Mattison
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If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.
Michael Gove
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Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.
Steven Van Zandt
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In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
Carolyn Wells
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I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!
Mia Hamm
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If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.
Terry Eagleton
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
William Butler Yeats
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You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?
Stephen Carter
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The past is what the present is doing now.
Rowan Williams
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She'd fallen into the best part of her past.
Sarah Addison Allen
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Studs Terkel
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I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."
Chang-Rae Lee
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The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.
George Will