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Quotes About Past

As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.
~ John Barrowman
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
~ Winston Churchill
Your past determines your future unless you're clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.
~ John de Ruiter
Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
~ Simone Weil
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.
~ Kate Chopin
The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!
~ Kenneth Grahame
He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.
~ Lady Randolph Churchill
Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
This 2016 election better be about the future, not the past. It better be about the issues our nation and the world is facing today, not simply the issues we once faced.
~ Marco Rubio
By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.
~ Marianne Williamson
Today's future is Tomorrow's past
~ Mario
Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.
~ Mark McKinnon
Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.
~ Mary Stewart
The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
~ Bob Dylan
The question was, could he forgive the past in order to have a future with her? Any future?
~ Unknown
Embrace the future and keep your back up against the past.
~ Chris Vonada
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
~ John Leonard
... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come
~ Dan Simmons, Hyperion
It does not matter how much we distance ourselves, how far we run - the past always shadows us.
~ Unknown
I'm sure that's when you really know you are happy - when you wake up wanting to embrace your future, rather than trying to squirm away from your past.
~ Unknown
'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.
~ David A. Adler
While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.
~ Michael Korda
Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.