Past Quotes · Page 125

Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

— Randy Pausch

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

— Jean de la Bruyere

There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past.

— John C. Bogle

Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

— Kate Forsyth

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

— Laurence J. Peter

I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.

— Jean Rhys

The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

— Jud Wilhite

“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the…

— H.G. Wells

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

— T. S. Eliot

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics…

— Natalie Dormer

An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.

— Porter Robinson

“It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.”

— Frank Herbert

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

— Confucius

I'm more careful now, but in the past I would always have to give 100 percent of myself to every single show.

— Denis Lawson

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

— John Mayer

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated…

— Thomas Sowell

There were definitely songs in the past that were me dealing with living this gender dysphoria, and sometimes they were really direct…

— Laura Jane Grace

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the…

— Adolf Loos

In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull.…

— Lauren Oliver

“I have emotions that are like newspapers that read themselves. I go for days at a time trapped in the want ads.…

— Richard Brautigan

If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and…

— Anonymous

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose…

— Emily Dickinson

April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past…

— Gladys Hasty Carroll

“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”

— peter adejimi

Everything that happened in the past "It was all necessary to bring us to where we are.

— Anita Stansfield

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

— David Wilkerson

You are in a good place when you can laugh at what would have made you mad in the past.

— Anonymous

Our Armed Forces, past and present have already waited too long for us to protect them.

— Penny Mordaunt

I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain't no way we can be friends.

— Trey Songz

The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.

— Harold Klemp

I think I learned a lot from my past, it's made me become what I am now at this moment.

— Hakim Ziyech

If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

— Mamie Till

I was offered daily soaps in the past but that was something I did not want to take up.

— Varun Sharma

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

— W. H. Auden

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.

— Kane

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

— Helen Dunmore

In the past I was close to moving to the Premier League, to Arsenal, that was my dream.

— Blaise Matuidi

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.

— Michael Aspel

“sometimes the past is the best memories you lived ever cause it'll never repeat again”

— Christine Minasian