Past quotes

“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.” Winston Churchill

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” Winston Churchill

“What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.” Sai Baba

“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.” Sai Baba

“I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.” Christina Aguilera

“I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.” Christina Aguilera

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.” Hillary Clinton

“I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.” Bob Dylan

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

“Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.” Bob Dylan

“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I dont want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.” Audrey Hepburn

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” Helen Keller

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” Maya Angelou

“We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.” Muhammad Ali

“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.” Warren Buffett

“There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.” George Carlin

“I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.” Jimi Hendrix

“The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.” Mick Jagger

“I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.” Mick Jagger

“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” William James

“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” William James

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.” Paul McCartney

“The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.” Steve Martin