Quotes About Past

For me, I make a schedule and I pass the time. I don't think about the transformation. When my schedule says I'm finished on this day, I put it in the past and go toward my future.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

The work of memory collapses time.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives.

I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.

Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

there was a time when these weren't memories.

Starving's not pleasant...I know for I've starved, but I'm not afraid of that. I am afraid of facing life without the slow beauty of our old world that is gone.

want to change history?" Luke made a stab at humor.

is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?