Past Quotes

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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
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will… — Wendell Berry
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its… — Annie Besant
At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its… — Annie Besant
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten.… — Annie Besant
I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the… — Mayim Bialik
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. — Theodor Adorno
I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. — Juliette Binoche
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. — Corrie Ten Boom

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