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

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown

I don't like to dwell on the past.
Tina Turner

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George Burns

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
George Lucas

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
Neale Donald Walsch

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Charles R. Swindoll

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

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
Bodhidharma

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
Jerry Garcia

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Norman Borlaug

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.
Norman Borlaug