Quotes About Past

For more than a decade after the 2000 election, leading Democrats ran from their gun control past and bent over backward to assuage the fears of gun owners.

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

If anybody will ask about my ex, or exes, I will just smile. I'll never say anything negative because I think that's what being a gentleman is.

I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.

I've had more than one girlfriend in my life.

I mean everybody's got ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Everybody's got baggage.

My God, I think about way back in the day when we were running around in Mary Janes and Doc Martens, that whole 90210-inspired look. I'm glad that's long gone.

I sing because it takes, for a brief second, it takes a little from my past, and just in that moment, I'm just happy and I'm glad to be who I am. That's the reason why.

Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.

I remember the glory days of film making. I used to go to the movies a lot.

I don't remember a lot of the good times from my days with the Truckers.

If only I could tell someone. The humiliation I go through when I think of my past can only be described as grace. We are created by being destroyed.

P.S. I close my eyes and see a seagull in the desert, high, against unbearably blue sky. There is hope in the past. I'm writing to you all the time, I am writing with both hands, day and night.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around...

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think , and to speak.

Direct self-observation is not nearly sufficient for us to know ourselves: we need history, for the past flows on within us in a hundred waves; indeed, we ourselves are nothing but that which at every moment we experience of this continual flowing.

What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything-- makes one gentle and pliable.

When the past speaks it always speaks as an oracle: only if you are an architect of the future and know the present will you understand it.