Past Quotes
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.
New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.
Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.
Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.
The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.
In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.
I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.
No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.
You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.
Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy. Workin' on mysteries without any clues, workin' on our night moves.
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
The industry needs transforming. It’s for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
