Past Quotes - Page 3

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The worst time is always the present.

Jean de La Fontaine

The "good old times"-all times when old are good.

The good old days. The only good days are ahead.

Alice Childress

There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.

Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past we are searching how to go forward.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye to restore it and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Fairless Barber

Some folks never exaggerate-they just remember big.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Lillian Hellman

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

Portuguese Proverb

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

Gabriel García Márquez

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.

George Santayana

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

William Shakespeare

Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.

0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

Henry Arthur Jones

Weep no more lady weep no more Thy sorrow is in vain For violets plucked the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.

1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

The present contains nothing more than the past and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.

0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

Henry Arthur Jones

Weep no more lady weep no more Thy sorrow is in vain For violets plucked the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.

1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

The best prophet of the future is the past.

The present contains nothing more than the past and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.

To regret your soul is to regret your past.

You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

Matshona Dhliwayo

History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

Heather Anastasiu

People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

She always used to say that the past is a relentless parasite in its quest, feeding off of the senses, looking for anything that will trigger a memory–forever there to complicate the present, forever there to remind us that it will always be a piece of us. I never had a clue as to what she meant, until now.

You can't just wipe away your history.

But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?

Haruki Murakami

Big events, small, mundane moments of the day–it doesn’t matter; the past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The past is a distant, receding coastline, and we are all in the same boat. Along the stern rail there is a line of telescopes; each brings the shore into focus at a given distance. If the boat is becalmed, one of the telescopes will be in continual use; it will seem to tell the whole, the unchanging truth. But this is an illusion; and as the boat sets off again, we return to our normal activity: scurrying from one telescope to another, seeing the sharpness fade in one, waiting for the blur to clear in another. And when the blur does clear, we imagine that we have made it do so all by ourselves.

I am slowly learning to pluck the flowers of my past from the weeds, and place them in the window where I can see them first. ~Call Me Tuesday

We always cherish and miss the time passed yet struglling for a better future but after moving to next level we feel the past was beautiful

How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.

V.T. Davy

He walks through the house of his past, hoping he'll find the right door, hoping he'll find the key.

We all have a past that may be worthy of some criticism".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in the past. I wanted to have back just one sunny afternoon together.

Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of tapering structures. Since it's quite far from one end to the other they can be opened out like an accordion; but they can also be stacked inside one another like Russian dolls, where the walls around time periods are extremely close to one another. The people of other centuries hear our phonographs blaring, and through the walls of time we see them raising their hands towards the deliciously prepared meal.

Never forget the pastTo lead the future best

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

Terry Pratchett

Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt.

ideaswar

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

It has been said, people drawn to law enforcement have a sixth sense, an ability to see what others do not. He prayed he was wrong. His sixth sense said there was much more than a broken heart in Claire's past.

You can never forget the past unless you face up to it.

Fan Wu

The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoughts. I'm not normally a navel-gazer. I've always thought you find yourself in other people. I'm visiting here. I don't want to set up house.

Bono

Tension is the Mirror of our Past.

Saab

To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.

Carol Ryrie Brink

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