Past Quotes

Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon
John updike - critics are like pigs at the pastry cart....
H. g. wells - the past is but the beginning of a beginning....
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Cicero
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit - Editorial, April 1982
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.
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
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.
Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
Carl sandburg, cornhuskers (1918)
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Elizabeth II
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne W Dye
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert Green Ingersoll
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
Herb Caen
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Past and to come seem best things present worst.
Mary Bertone
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides, Phrixus
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past...
Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
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
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S Truman
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
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
Oswald Chambers
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
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Sir Winston Churchill
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Sir Walter Scott
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw