Past Quotes

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. (Thomas Jefferson)
Study the past, if you would divine the future. View quote
Confucius
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. View quote
George Orwell
Though God cannot alter the past, historians can. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it. View quote
Bruce Willis
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. View quote
George Santayana
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. View quote
Euripides
Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The best prophet of the future is the past. (Lord Byron)
A revolution is not a trail of roses.... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. View quote
Fidel Castro
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. View quote
Simone Weil
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. View quote
Colette
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
I've always been more interested in the future than in the past. View quote
Grace Hopper
We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes. View quote
Jean Jaures
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. View quote
George Eliot
You can never plan the future by the past. View quote
Edmund Burke
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. (Heath Ledger)
I believe that I've made good judgments in the past, and I think I've made good judgments in the future. View quote
Dan Quayle
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. View quote
Albert Einstein
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. View quote
John F. Kennedy
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. View quote
Honoré de Balzac