I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
Al Gore

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.
Angus Young

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten Boom

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
Henri Matisse

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
John Cusack

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Simone Weil

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Simone Weil

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Karl Von Clausewitz

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Henry A. Kissinger

One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Ziggy Marley

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
Fred Rogers

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Jorge Luis Borges

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

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
Lynn Abbey

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
Jean Anouilh

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac

My past is a bit checkered.
Kid Rock

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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza