Past Quotes

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

Past art is subject to change.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it.

I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what I would like to do if I was able to do so.

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

The problem is we bear grudges that go a thousand years into the past. Really, I could find people who begrudge the Greeks for doing awful things to the Bulgarians more than a thousand years ago.

When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past!

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

A friend is someone who understand your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.

Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

I have done more live events in the past twenty years than I have eaten dinner.

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

Because of your love I have broken with my past

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.

When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

The past is only a guidepost... not a hitching post.

The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives.

If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.