“History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.” — T.L. Rese Copy Share Image
“TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time &… — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about… — Fred Bodsworth Copy Share Image
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Only those who have studied the past can create history in the present; can predict the future. Such history should be science-based… — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
“I don’t need to know your history. I don’t want to know about your past," he says as he looks at me.… — Ava Zavora Copy Share Image
Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who… — Bill Dixon Copy Share Image
Floods, droughts, and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt… — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“I think women gather up into themselves what they have been through much more than we (men) do. To them, what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was,… — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“When you have developed ill health, you may find that there are past employer benefits you are entitled to.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Never think hard about the PAST, It brings tears... Don't think more about the FUTURE, It brings fears... Live this moment with… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I don't think X-23's past is the most interesting thing about her, but it's not like she can escape it, either. — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense,… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Don't let the romance die, remember one thing that's going right in the sea of things that aren't. — Lights Copy Share Image
It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar. — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
It's a lot of people that died for me to have the opportunity that I have now, just the freedom. It shouldn't… — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
Lesson from grammar: The past will always be simple. The future will always be perfect. And the present will always be tensed... — Silent Killer Copy Share Image
People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel… — John Daishin Buksbazen Copy Share Image
I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past...… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
My batting practice would be a guy throwing balls in the way in which I liked it. It was all about getting… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
“but the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The past is only making you to spill tears, tears of joy or tears pain. But anyway they are making you sad,… — T.A Copy Share Image
Our pasts, are like a shadow, do you face it, and walk in front in the light? Or do you give in… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image