Quotes About Past

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

Time goes from present to past.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so.

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.

On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.

There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days.

You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.

Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.

Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.