Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time.

Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It’s always been that way.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.Let the Extirpation continue....

I am expecting nothing more than I’ve seen in the past,

The past is only making you to spill tears, tears of joy or tears pain. But anyway they are making you sad, for the things you had and will never have again.

What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when when I looked at my receding past everything seemed retrospectively marked by an...

There are all types of love in this world, but never the same love twice

Jeff has been a big part of our success the past three years. He’s been one of the top offensive threats each year and he continues to be the best third baseman this league has...

Every struggle in your past has shaped you into the person you are today. Take God’s hand and step into your future without fear.

We change with time by how we view the future and reflect the past

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.

Too often, bridal shows are boring – I love including a small, unexpected element to make it interesting, like the removable skirts and umbrellas in seasons past.

Sarah’. She had thought they had thrown that bit of history into the trash, and the trash into the incinerator. But apparently ‘Sarah’ had only been thrown into a plastic bag and left in the...

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.

And in the past, Archie wondered, was it just that fewer people cheated? Were they more honest, and did they leave their front doors open, did they leave their kids with the neighbors, pay social...

There is no future in the past and there is no real hope in the future, only regrets, worries, plans and aim for the best.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them....

The past,’ he thought, ‘is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.’ And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain;...

Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there’s nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at the same picture again and again and start making a better...

Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future.

I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn’t that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in the past. I wanted to have back just one sunny afternoon together.

I’m 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

The past is no good if you can’t learn from it; therefore, no sense in dwelling on it.

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

With some of the things that happened in the past and earlier in the season, I knew we were going to go through a tough stretch. We have to stay strong. … we can’t give...

It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.

How did it make you feel?

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first...

She had only been here 10 days over the past couple of months. They come and they spend a certain number of hours.

Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me… I said in the past that I’m a work in progress,...

He was a prisoner to the calendar, he realised, as we all were. He thought in little boxes that were to be ticked off and filled with things to do. Almost every day he thought...

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the lessons you’ve learned along the way. You must take the scars of your past and appreciate them...

Page 99: “…unless something changes, the future that you can expect is more of the past. Sorry or becoming committed does not make Jim Carrey a great golfer, or made Jack nicklaus funny. Recommitment does...

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, ‘I never fell into error’? And if he more than once offended, who...

This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which...

You know the saying a rolling stone gathers no moss? I’m the opposite. I’ve gathered too much, and when one thing happens, it brings up everything else that’s ever been similar to it. I don’t...

We’re going to be facing pretty good pitching. Some guys I faced in the past. Hopefully they don’t have their `A’ games and we do.

[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.

The acceleration of the past several months has been quite stunning, so it’s not surprising to get a bit of a pause. After an unusually warm December, January was unusually cold and snowy. That may...

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.