Past Quotes

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.

Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for the generations which follow us.

I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.

I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.

Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

I mean Dark Phoenix series, the way it was done, they didn't do it justice in the past movies, in my personal opinion. I just like the X-Men universe.

Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it.

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

I'm attracted to the past.

There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.

To move past fear is a cliche.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

We pretty much had crazy weather, historically speaking, in every location we filmed [The Fourth Phase]. Nothing has been normal in the past three years.

Over the past six years, my girlfriend and I live on our boat two or three months a year. It's just one of our seasonal homes at this point.

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

I don't ever look past anyone or think that they're not worthy. Of course they're worthy, they're warriors.

Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is only a promise. Only today is legal tender.

I try to update as much as possible. You don't want to be in the past.

I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.

In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.

I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present.

The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.

It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.