Past quotes

Discover inspiring quotes about the Past, reflecting on unforgettable memories, lessons learned, and the beauty of experiences that shape our present. Dive into nostalgia and learn from history's wisdom.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

- John Calvin

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

- Matt Blunt

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

- Alex Campbell

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

- Richard Marx

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

- Steven Squyres

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

- Norman Borlaug

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

- Bob Dylan

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

- Earl Scruggs

Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.

- Robert Matsui

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.

- Tipper Gore

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

- Craig Shirley

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

- Titus Livius

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

- Bulent Ecevit

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

- Steve Case

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

- Stockwell Day

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

- Dee Hock

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

- John Cage

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

- Patricia Velasquez

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

- Roone Arledge

I'm really obsessed with the past.

- Fisher Stevens

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

- Frederick Jackson Turner

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

- Gustav Stresemann

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.

- Leah Remini

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

- Louis Farrakhan

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

- Judith Wright

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

- Roland Joffe

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

- Thor Heyerdahl

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

- Sylvester Stallone

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

- Hideki Tojo