Quotes About Past

Dear Hewitt Costello, Equerry, were daylighted with our outing and are looking backwards to our unearly summers

Another life! A life of grace and virtue and happiness! It was true. It was not a dream from which he would wake. The past was past.

I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence this. But tomorrow is a new day will be. Past was is today. What now is will then tomorrow as now was be past yester.

Creación desde la nada. ¿Qué tiene en el bolso? Un engendro con el cordón umbilical arrastrando, amorrado en paño bermejo. El cordón de todos enlaza con el pasado, cable cabitrenzado de toda carne. Por eso los monjes místicos. ¿Querríais ser como dioses? Miraos vuestro omphalos. ¡Oiga! Aquí Kinch. Pón-game con Villaedén. Alef, alfa: cero, cero, uno.

In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal that which I was is that which I am and that which in possibility I may come to be. So in the future, the sister of the past, I may see [187] myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which then I shall be.

Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you?

But I had learned long ago not to argue with those who need to revise the past.

Get a lot of gone between you and this situation.

Ernest Hemingway said chasing the past is a bum way to live your life," the sheriff said. "He also said he never took his own advice.

Hackberry tried to convince himself that Collins was dead, his body long ago eaten by coyotes or lost inside the bowels of the earth. Regardless, Hackberry told himself, Collins belonged in the past or the place in the collective unconscious where most demons had their origins. If evil was actually a separate and self-sustaining entity, he thought, its manifestation was in the nationalistic wars that not only produced the greatest suffering but always became lionized as patriotic events.

For good or bad, my preoccupation with death and the past had defined much of my life, and a long time ago I had made my separate peace with the world and abandoned any claim on reason or normalcy or the golden mean. Waylon Jennings said it many years ago: I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.

But the past is the past, and you don't get it back.

You can't change the past and you can't do aught but rue the way you sometimes acted back when you were young and stupid and thought you were immortal. Doesn't prevent you from wishing you could.

He raised his gaze to the ecliptic. The answers were out there, coded in light, speeding through space and time. Liquid fire coursing through him, visions of past and future riffling through his mind, he opened himself to the reconfigured galaxy, as if in an effort to peel away the decades

at least to live wit them and like it. Maybe a wife can have cross eyes or buck teeth; but she can't have a past.

a leader's vision for the future has to be supported with facts about both the past and present." One

B]ut you remind me of things I can't think about no more. I'm in the last October of life looking for a few more Aprils. I don't want to remember no more.

Memory is all I have now

pique. What was done was done. Junie had asked for coffee

But after a while, you know, I find it better to face in one direction, in front of you, just let the past lay and get on with it

Meeting is the beginning of parting.' We remember the past, but live for the present, because even the present will be the past someday.

Even the jukebox plays nothing but oldies, mostly

He and I have history;

Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.