All Quotes

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
‐‐ Paul Scott

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
‐‐ Unknown

The past cannot be cured.
‐‐ Elizabeth I

The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.
‐‐ Kristi Yamaguchi

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
‐‐ John Berger

The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.
‐‐ Joel A. Barker

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.
‐‐ Tom Drury

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.
‐‐ Ken Hensley

The past has to inform the present.
‐‐ John Turturro

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
‐‐ James Hutton

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
‐‐ Mick Jagger

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
‐‐ Robert Plant

The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.
‐‐ Charles Frazier

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
‐‐ James Thurber

The past is but the past of a beginning.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

The past is filled with people who aren't traditionally thought of as fantastic singers singing these songs that capture people; songs like 'Louie Louie.' I just aim toward that, and I think I've gotten better at it.
‐‐ Stone Gossard

The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because their work didn't fit neatly into potted categories but also because they avoided the self-promotional efforts of their peers.
‐‐ Joanna Scott

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
‐‐ Peter L. Berger

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
‐‐ Doris Kearns Goodwin

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
‐‐ Mary Webb

The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
‐‐ Samantha Harvey

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.
‐‐ Craig McCaw

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
‐‐ Jessamyn West

The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
‐‐ Michael Ondaatje

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

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.
‐‐ Chris Evans

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

The past is what the past is.
‐‐ Richard Sherman

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
‐‐ Harold Pinter

The past is where its supposed to be.
‐‐ Jason Newsted

The past is yesterday. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.
‐‐ Junior Seau

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
‐‐ Israel Zangwill

The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States.
‐‐ Herman Cain

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
‐‐ Felix Adler

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
‐‐ Harriet Beecher Stowe

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?
‐‐ J. C. Watts