Quotes and Sayings About Past

I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Boys #Past #Men

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
-- Adora Svitak

#Past #Ignorant #Uninformed

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.
-- Adrian McKinty

#Book #Past #Pockets

Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative.
-- Adrienne Mayor

#Queens #Memories #Past

... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Philosophy #Past #Wind

One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
-- Adyashanti

#Humility #Past #Innocence

My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
-- Aga Khan III

#Art #Book #Past

Even God cannot change the past.
-- Agathon

#Change #Past

This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
-- Agathon

#Time #Power #Past

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.
-- Agathon

#Past

What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.
-- Agnes Mary Clerke

#Ignorance #Past #Done

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Past #Foolish #Subtle

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Past #Disease #Littles

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella

#Past #Poverty #Misery

In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.
-- Ahmed Yassin

#Past #Differences #Lebanon

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Creativity #Past #Imagination

The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Heart #Past #People

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
-- Aidan Chambers

#Past #Path #Made

She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
-- Aidan Chambers

#Beautiful #Past #Sight

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.
-- Aidan Quinn

#Stupid #Mean #Past

Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Christian #Past #Night

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.
-- Aimee Friedman

#Ocean #Past #Tides

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
-- Aimee Mann

#Past #Doubt #Momentum

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
-- Aimee Mann

#Couple #Past #Years

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
-- Ajahn Brahm

#Past #Alive #Consciousness

The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.  The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.  The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away.  They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they'll forget.
-- Akhil Sharma

#Baby #Memories #Past

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
-- Akio Morita

#School #Past #Matter

In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.
-- Akira Mori

#Change #Real #Past

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
-- Al Gore

#Past #Civilization #Done

There is an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. We have to go far, quickly, and that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we are facing and how we have to work to solve it.
-- Al Gore

#Mean #Past #Together