Past Quotes
57 quotations about Past
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,
As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
I never look back, I look forward.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.