Past Quotes - Page 121

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.

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.

The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.

Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Remembering the past gives power to the present.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

You can't change the past so change something you can. the future!

A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an outlaw for ten years. He joined the liberal insurgents in 1860 in the hope of an amnesty for his past offences, and subsequently became the most formidable guerilla chief and leader of men on the Bourbon side.

For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

I don't care about the past.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first.

I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.