Past Quotes

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

Embrace your past, but live for now.

Liberia can move on and break from the past. That is very important for us to try to achieve our development goals and reconcile our nation.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

We're not prisoners of the past.

This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone."

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

I guess no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your past.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

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.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.

The past is always triple-A. We can all remember what the past was. But if we try to make the future triple-A, we have no future. The future is always single-B.

Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me.

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.

Everyone must learn from the past.

You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better

Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!

It's hard letting go of the past, when there are no firm handholds in the future.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.

I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.

No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.