Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.
The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.
To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.
Leave the past as beautifully as it needs to be a road map for your present and future
I know the different ways that I have lost. I think that's beneficial to me because I know how I got in those situations in the past, and I know how to avoid those situations.
I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.
If you want to master your past at some point in time you’ll have to learn forgiveness.
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
