Quotes About Past

Closed timelike curve is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

Stephen King, 11/22/63

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it?

Take me back into the time when I lost track of time!

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.

Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

When you depend on the computer to remember your past, you focused on whatever past is kept on the computer.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes--to me a beatitude--is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women--or men--can suffer is to be bereft of their past.

The present moment is the only reality we experience because the past is already gone and the future has not yet come.

There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.

A great NOW will be a great WAS A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE

Don't mess with your memories.... only they have the power to return from the dead.