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Past Quotes by Maya Angelou
- Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
- It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light…
- Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.
- The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does
- I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for…
- We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
- Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and…
- Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends…
- We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange…
More Past Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach