Past Quotes

Unknown - be positive in addressing the envelope to your...
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie".
I think we agree, the past is over.
George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
Laurence j. pete - bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the...
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.
Sir Winston Churchill
Barbara de angelis - the more anger towards the past you carry in your...
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
Oprah Winfrey
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.
Lillian Eichler Watson
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert Green Ingersoll
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.
Gerald W. Johnston
The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.
L. Thomas Holdcroft
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
Ida Scott Taylor.
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....
Ursala Lequin
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.
Erich Frohm
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
John Sladek
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.
Saturday Review
The past is the tomorrow that got away.
Leonard L. Levinson
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
Agathon
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Elizabeth II
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides, Phrixus
Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.
Curt Simmons
Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
Alfred North Whitehead
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
Russell Hoban
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.
George Steine
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.
Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell