Past Quotes

Some quotes and sayings about Pasts..


Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf


Bring the past only if you are going to build from it. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada


One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ~Golda Meir

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou

I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
~ Leslie Poles Hartley


“May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future

I like men who have a future and women who have a past
Oscar Wilde

There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you–if you don’t repeat it.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

I was so in the present moment the past was no longer part of me. ~Terri Guillemets


God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. ~Pliny the Elder


We need not destroy the past. It is gone. ~John Cage