Quotes about Past
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.
- Winston Churchill
History: a collection of epitaphs.
- Elbert Hubbard
The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
- John F. Kennedy
Nostalgia: How long's that been around?
- Bill Bailey
I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past
- Stephen Covey
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
- Gloria Steinem
One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Don't forget your history nor your destiny.
- Bob Marley
You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
Plans let past drives the future.
- Jason Fried
What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a decent fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal.
- Edith Wharton
What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal?
- Edith Wharton