But what is past my help is past my care.
Francis Beaumont

I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.
John Prescott

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
Theodor Adorno

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
Theodor Adorno

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.
Karl Lagerfeld

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

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
Paracelsus

He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.
Jennie Jerome Churchill

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
Marilyn vos Savant

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
Ben Jonson

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
Lord Acton

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Lord Acton

I don't want to live on past records.
Barry Gibb

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
Herb Caen

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
John Jay Chapman

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle