Past Quotes - Page 36

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.

Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.

Push me past my limit all you want. It's territory I know well.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters.