Past Quotes

11277 Past quotes by 5724 unique authors

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. — Honore de Balzac
I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders. — Tyra Banks
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again… — John Banville
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past. — John Banville
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for… — Gerry Adams
I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative. — Brigitte Bardot
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. — Djuna Barnes
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular… — James M. Barrie
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,… — Ethel Barrymore
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things… — Clara Barton
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. — Bernard Baruch
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie
Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution. — Glenn Beck
Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. — Martha Beck
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. — Berenice Abbott
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots… — Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. — George Ade
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium… — Walter Benjamin
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. — John Berger

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