Past Quotes

I think we agree, the past is over.
George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
Melody beattie - gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. it turns...
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
William Shakespeare
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.
Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
Anna mary robertson moses - a strange thing is memory, and hope one looks...
Four things come not back - - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
Arabian Prove
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
George eliot - the golden moments in the stream of life rush...
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
Sam Ervin
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.
Dan Quayle
The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.
Israel Zangwill
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
Bill Cosby
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
Krishnamurti
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High - Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - If totally different in form - From all the romantic architecture of the past.
Dan Cruickshank
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
Unknown
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S Truman
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.
William Wordsworth
The future is the past returning through another gate.
Arnold Glasgow
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
Mark White
The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.
L. Thomas Holdcroft
The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H. G. Wells
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
Oprah Winfrey
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
Past and to come seem best things present worst.
Mary Bertone
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
Danger past, God forgotten.
Scottish Prove
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Sir Walter Scott
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