Past Quotes
Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.Curt Simmons
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
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning".
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.Dan McKinnon
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie".
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.Frederick Chiluba
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.R. D. Laing
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
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
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.William Wordsworth
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, in Fast Company
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
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.Maurice Masterlinck
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.Andr Gide
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.Harry S Truman
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.Harry S Truman
He who controls the past controls the future.George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
The future is the past returning through another gate.Arnold Glasgow
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
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.Sophocles, Trachiniae
Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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 than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.John Updike
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
Past and to come seem best things present worst.Mary Bertone
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.Isabelle Eberhardt
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
