Quotes About Past

This is our country, and this is our past, and we are the present, and these young people are the future.

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.

Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

What is a history teacher? He's someone who teaches mistakes.

Look at her, Alfred," Bruce said. "That sculpture alone, which we owe to both Percy and Lydia, is proof that Gotham's past holds more than just crime and bloodshed. Peace and grace can also be found there, and endure for generations to come, long after the sins of the past are dead and buried.

When first resurrected, he'd worried constantly over which aspects of his past he should imitate for the sake of sanity, and which he should discard as a matter of honesty.

The wormhole makes tangible the most basic truths of existence. You cannot see the future. You cannot change the past. All of life consists of running into darkness. This is why I'm here.

History can't harm you; the "chance" of having survived the last x minutes is one hundred per cent, once you've done it. As the unknowable future becomes the unchangeable past, risk must collapse into certainty, one way or another.

Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

He'd done his best to lock himself off from the past, and yet here it was again, rearing its head, threatening to buck him like a horse.

Okay. Thomas. What was he like before his childhood incident?" Mr. Atlasia paused and cast the line of his memory back, disturbing still waters. Jade watched his face to see if he told everything that was dredged up.

You have your whole life ahead of you," my mother told me, "don't spend all your time in the past." It's good advice, I know it is, but the past has its own ideas. It can follow you around with a life of its own, casting a long shadow.

The stars are dead, but their memories fill the sky

And because soul music is the limitless affirmation of the individual despite his or her past sins and all obstacles in his or her way

Shakespearean tragedy is neither ancient history nor fairy tale. Perhaps to express this is the most important thing. In which period does the action of the play take place? It is in that past which can become the future.

Forgiveness is probably the most important self-esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change are our thoughts about the past. Forgiveness happens when we stop wishing for a better past and understand that we are carrying hatred, anger and resentment within us.

Regretful and negative thoughts about the past can effectively induce the same kind of fight or flight response that external threats stimulate.

C'était et je voudrais ne pas m'en souvenir c'était au déclin de la beauté...

Overhead in the Paris sky Two airplanes fought it out one day And one of them was my whole youth The other was my days to come

Even the automobiles have an air of antiquity here.

Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent

Kada po?nemo da kopamo po prošlosti, nastaju nevolje.

Car, dans nombre d'existences, rien n'est plus fort que le passé, l'innocence perdue et les amours enfouies. Rien ne nous remue plus les tripes que le souvenir des occasions manquées et le parfum du bonheur qu'on a laissé filer.