Past Quotes

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

Whether you have been aware of your thoughts in the past or not, now you are becoming aware. Right now, with the knowledge of The Secret, you are waking up from a deep sleep and becoming aware!

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

God never consults your past to make your future.

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.

Trust in Divine timing. Your future holds something far greater than your past.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don't think it should be allowed to detain us against our will.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.

I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.

Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.