Quotes About Past

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.

Kuwait is our haven which God has given us, the home he granted us.. Kuwait is our origins and branches, security and resolution, protection and glory.. The past, present and future.

I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

The American people aren't focused on the debates of the past. They're focused on their future. They're focused on the challenges that we're facing at home and abroad.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

I will honor my ancestors in StarClan, but not those who have ever walked in the Dark Forest. Guide my steps wisely, warriors of the past. And warriors of now.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.

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!

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.