Quotes about past
pasture
It's like a pasture out there. It's a pitcher-friendly ballpark.
past essence names
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. Logan Pearsall Smith
past people haste
I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction Lois Lowry
past men dare
How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God. LL Cool J
past your-future hostage
You can't let your past hold your future hostage. LL Cool J
past wind sky
Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me-I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said "Dying-dying into the past-is like a river flowing." Mao Zedong
past down-and facts
You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it. Mao Zedong
past ghost happened
The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did. Lucy Maud Montgomery
past men years
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. Louis XIV
past forgiving faces
The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total. Louis Zamperini
past years names
Hansen’s disease”—that’s the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy—“Hansen’s disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years, America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy Lou Dobbs
past focus important
What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present Lou Holtz
past feels assured
The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't. John Green
past america squares
When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive. John Gielgud
past poetry thousand
All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them. John Fowles
past dancing teeth
Well I'm not dancing," Will said through gritted teeth. "I don't know how." Oh yes you are," Alyss told him. "Let's hope you're a fast learner." He glanced at her and saw no prospect of escape. "Well,at least I won't be the only one," he said. "Halt will be terrible too." But nobody in the assembly knew tat for the past ten days, Halt had been taking dance lessons from Lady Sandra. John Flanagan
past keys giving
The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future. John F. Kennedy
past hands immigration
Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience. John F. Kennedy
past lasts moments
There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last. Jonathan Larson
past knowing survival
It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present. Jonathan Maberry
past people doe
People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule. Jonathan Evison
past
For me, the past is dead. Can't go back. Jonathan Ames
past opportunity years
Planet Hollywood has shrunk from seventy-five locations around the world to just over thirty-five over the past two years. No new Planet Hollywoods are opening, which in turn has caused a 100 percent decline in opportunities for Bruce Willis to play the harmonica. Jon Stewart
past vocabulary wonder
She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah. Jon McGregor
past ideas voice
Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice. Joyce Carol Oates
past knows
There is no PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or even to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it. Joyce Carol Oates
past erase
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. Joyce Carol Oates
past years two
Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to. Katha Pollitt
past doors keys
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door. Kate Atkinson
past sometimes harder
Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future. Kate Atkinson
past thinking creating
I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period. Kate Atkinson
past rubies boards
Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you. Kate Atkinson
past
The past is what you take with you. Kate Atkinson