Quotes About Past

Man sagt ja, die Erinnerung male mit einem goldenen Pinsel.

I refuse to ask of the past more meaning than it can give to the present.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

These fantasies about the future, based on the past, are the hope and hype we con ourselves with. Even if we get what we always wanted it never looks like we thought it would when it arrives.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

Events and emotions from the past have shaped what clients think, feel, and believe about money. This, in turn, affects their financial behavior and choices in the present. Addressing the past can be a critical component of achieving financial health, especially for clients with long-term patterns of problematic money behavior.

There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.

can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

The only thing worse than remembering the past is the fear of reliving it.

I do confess that I bring to the study of history the prejudices born of my experiences and imagination—who doesn't—but I will not admit that this disqualifies me from seeing some bit of the truth about the past, even if only a bit.

Aqua cleared his throat. Then he sang the last lines in his beautiful, rich voice: "Watch out for people who belong in your past. Don't let 'em back in your life.

She handed him an old class photograph, the color not so much fading as greening from age. Fifteen kids flanked by two teachers, one a far younger Peggy Joyce. The years had not been unkind to her, but they'd passed anyway.

Watch out for people who belong in your past. Don't let 'em back in your life." When she Googled the lyrics on her phone, it all came flooding back to her. The song was "Demon Lover" by Michael Smith.

Remember when you asked me why I didn't say anything before you married Tom?" "It was a few days ago. I can sometimes remember back a whole week." "I

Would it be too hackneyed to wonder where it all went so wrong? Kitty's

Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.

must safeguard the woman from his past who is nurturing a ticking time bomb of a secret. The momentum keeps building as Sylvie Kurtz launches

Perhaps our forefathers were wise.

You're none of these things out of the past. I had shouted. None of these things … Angelina. I had bellowed this and there had been no protest from her.

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Beyond the edge of the world there's a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.

No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.