Past and present Quotes

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

— Gautama Buddha

“Fuck the past. This was the present.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

— Oscar Wilde

“Past and present commingle: Eternity in the single blink of an eye!”

— Lu Chi

Some of the dirtiest dogs, past and present, had mothers.

— Gregory Null

He who controls the past controls the future.

— Laozi

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

— Jose Parla

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

— Henry Moore

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

— Penny Mordaunt

Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime,…

— Anonymous

Be thankful for everybody in your life, good and bad, past and present. They all made you the person that you are…

— Anonymous

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

— Kofi Annan

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

— Courteney Cox

“You invoke a new future when you envision your past in the light of your present.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

— Chuck Grassley

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and…

— Paule Marshall

“They say the past always catches up with you, sooner or later. I prefer sooner, because by the time later rolls around,…

— Dan Thompson

In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline…

— Ann Hood

What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of…

— Emory Douglas

I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as…

— Leonard Peltier

“What is the present if not the graveyard of the past where, for each of our deeds we dig a grave. Everything…

— Mladen Đorđević

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so…

— Allen Ginsberg

Never Harbor feelings of hatred toward anyone, its horrendous, for your satisfactory condition of existence. our mind doesn't recognize the difference between…

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

“The New World Order is not new, it has been around and developing under one or another guise for a very long…

— John Coleman

“and all at once it seemed that past and present had joined again without any divisions in it, and that all my…

— Lawrence Durrell

“From my own experience, after my time in the colonies, I know that a man home from war has much to deal…

— Annette Blair

The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have…

— Saul Alinsky

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it…

— John Fogerty

I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost…

— Jeff Smith

Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound…

— David Jason

Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and…

— Sax Rohmer

“What a thing this sleeplessness was! . . . If sleep, she thought, could be compared to a gentle lake in a…

— Patrick Hamilton

“Religion and revolution reverberated through northern Mexico like the thunder and lightning of its wild and fierce storms. This book reveals the…

— Philip Stover

“Subect: Sigh. Okay. Since we're on the subject... Q. What is the Tsar of Russia's favorite fish? A. Tsardines, of course. Q.…

— Melissa Jensen

“I suggest that those who live in the past don't want a confrontation with the present. I believe that white Americans welcome…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“When you’re climbing up a rock face, your hands are not more than a few inches from your eyes, but when you’re…

— Jeffrey Archer

“Time held no meaning as my mind darted in and out of memories. Past and present collided to create a full-sensory collage…

— Kimberly Kinrade

“What happens under the rule of specialization is that, though society becomes more and more intricate, it has less and less structure.…

— Wendell Berry

“Kerry shifted her attention from Hardy to the rest of the still-milling crowd and tried to ignore the murmurs that included Cooper’s…

— Donna Kauffman

“Hasan, the Begger: Believe it or not, they call this purgatory on earth “holy-suffering”. I am a leper stuck in limbo. Neither…

— Elif Shafak