Past Quotes

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

I've never had to fight hard for anything I've gotten in the past.

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.

Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.