Quotes About Past

People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly have a conversation without getting into an argument. And it was only when I felt I could finally distance myself from my past that I began to write about what happened - not just to me, but to lots of young people. I think my story is a cautionary tale.

One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

I don't want to get into a debate. I have never talked about my first marriage for that reason. I don't think it would be fair to my daughter. I don't think it would be fair to my second wife. That's the past.

Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.

The memory of things become the reality of things. Or maybe the past is not permanent. Maybe the tree has said its fill, and leaves us with an image of ourselves.

I would like to find the words to make sure the man only looks longingly at the way night has begun to deepen itself in the river. It's easy to drown yourself in words that drift out of your past. — Richard Jackson, from "Easy," Broken Horizons (Press 53, 2018)

If you ask me do I love you, I have to tell you that I have never loved you, not even now, not tomorrow. In this way, I can begin to love you again and again because there is no past. This is the way the moon unbutton the stars as it passes overhead. The way even the most distant galaxies continue to tug on us. This is the way I love you.

The past is relevant only as data.

I wish I could say, "No more Mr. Nice Guy," but the boat sailed on that one a long time ago.

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

How can there be fury felt for things that are gone to dust.

There was a time when the elder generation was cherished because it represented the past; now it is avoided and thrust out of sight for the same reason.

How long did it take for a past to die?

I am a Jew a generation after the Holocaust. Poorer, my grandfather says, without a past, than he, who has no future.

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

He gazed at the table. "After Vietnam," he said at length, "I wasn't always present. That was hard, particularly on your mother. Yet there was no way out but forward. After a while, the past recedes." Meg was surprised; for her father to mention Mary McCarran was even rarer than his allusions to Vietnam.

The past makes a good bishop but a poor king....it's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promise.

The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.

The past makes a good bishop but a poor king." "What does that mean?" I said. "It means that it's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promise.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.