Past Quotes

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

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.

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.

The past has to inform the present...

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

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.

The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.

You do learn from what you've done in the past.

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.

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.

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.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

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.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

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.

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?..

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

Do not regret the past. Look to the future.

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.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

Composers are always going back to the past.

I have been searching for time past all my life.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

I think once you're past 30 you shouldn't wear a lot of glitter.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen

God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.