| "Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past." »George Steiner |
| "I've learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, But we must not allow our past to control us either. We must learn and grow from our past failures, Disappointments, pains and experiences. Reset our goals and priorities... and move forward. Start TODAY, by Un-Ty-ing the knots that LIMIT you" »Ty Howard |
| "People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled." »Norman Mailer |
| "It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past." »George Steiner |
| "Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." »Dr. Dale E. Turner |
| "All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone." »Richard von Weizscker |
| "The past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition." »Israel Zangwill |
| "You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes." »Denis Watley |
| "The past is only the present become invisible and mute and because it is invisible and mute, its memoried glances and it's murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past." »Mary Webb |
| "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future." »Stephen Ambrose |
| "Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning." »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past." »George Orwell |
| "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." »George Orwell |
| "In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere." »Maxim Gorky |
| "The past is the tomorrow that got away." »Leonard L. Levinson |
| "The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here." »Finley Peter Dunne |
| "I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes." »Carl Sandburg |
| "Even God cannot change the past." »Agathon |
| "You can never plan the future by the past." »Edmund Burke |
| "The past is certain, the future obscure." »Thales |
| "Look back, and smile on perils past." »Sir Walter Scott |
| "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." »George Santayana |
| "Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." »Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| "We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows." »William Osler |
| "past and to come seem best things present worst." »Mary Bertone |
| "God cannot alter the past, but historians can." »Samuel Butler |
| "The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future." »Robert Green Ingersoll |
| "Study the past if you would define the future." »Confucius |
| "The future is the past returning through another gate." »Arnold Glasgow |
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