Past Quotes · Page 79

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

— Euripides

Because of God's grace and mercy your future can be greater than your past.

— Anonymous

“MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change…

— Hillary DePiano

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks…

— Peter Benchley

The leading non-establishment Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, is just sailing past [establishment Republican candidates] in the polls. He is still…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

They messed up your past, but they can't mess up your future unless YOU let them.

— SONYA PARKER

“Who am I? I am who I say I am and tomorrow someone else entirely. You are too nostalgic, you want memory…

— Janet Fitch

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it…

— Edwin Land

Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.

— Mike Nichols

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do…

— Aldous Huxley

There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't.…

— Vittorio De Sica

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a…

— Simon Conway Morris

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

— Patrick Carman

[Paper Girls] is very much is about how we are thinking about our past and growing up.

— Cliff Chiang

You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do…

— Ryohgo Narita

You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it.

— Raila Odinga

I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The…

— Cornell Woolrich

Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise…

— Adi Shankara

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

— Grace King

Never confined yourself by the walls of past debacle, you must light the flame of trust in self & pave way for…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is…

— Martha Graham

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

— Dan Brown

It took some time for us to realize that [people] didn't particularly say they didn't like us or have the love for…

— John Carlos

Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your…

— Nicole Williams

“Unforgiveness is a poison that shrivels the heart. It means a person cannot truly live in the present as they're always thinking…

— Carolyn Miller

Your life isn't determined by who you were in the past; your life is determined by the steps that you are willing…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The flight crew for the orbital mission has been picked, and I'm not on it. Of course I've been feeling pretty low…

— Gus Grissom

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as…

— Jane Austen

I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman…

— Wilbur Smith

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

— Judi Dench

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

— Jack Kerouac

Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there…

— Kshama Sawant

Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Working in sports for nearly the past twenty years, I have seen first-hand how gun violence affects athletes and their families.

— Suzy Shuster

We can't have a better tomorrow if we are thinking about the same shit yesterday.

— Edwin Mamerto

Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around…

— Judith Wright

Historically, women's voices were central to food narratives, yet they were marginalized, and what happened at the table, the kitchen, the garden,…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past. I think if you're a competent actor with a…

— Miguel Ferrer