Quotes About Past

When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

The more we look at the kinds of soils and the nature of the atmosphere and the polar caps, it all adds up to tell us that some liquid, which we very much believe was water, did flow in abundance on Mars in the past.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

The Obama Administration continues to talk about the 'policies of the past' and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster.

We can't double down on the failed energy policies of the past.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people back into the British past. Those of us who write about this history have long been familiar with this.

When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.

My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where when somebody finishes reading the book, he or she emerges from it with a sense of having lived in the past.

The only way you'll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past.

One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other creatures, humans have a beginning and an ending, and in between lies their story.

For so long, I was ashamed of my past, and I think that crippled me a lot in having confidence.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

A lot of people ask me about my past. It's part of my life, so I expect people to ask certain questions. Maybe they're curious.

I don't want to go back to Capital Radio. I don't want to go back to rolling in custard with Sheena Easton and Annie Lennox.

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

My relationship with Madrid is finished because my cycle there ended.