Our Past Quotes
Our Past Quote of the day
We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.
We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.
God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.
Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.
If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.
Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.
The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future
Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.
To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.
The only way we can leave the pain or sin from our past is to face it with Christ. For the past cannot be forgotten, it can only be forgiven and redeemed.
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.
To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.
We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.
Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.
Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.
Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.
We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.
The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.
