Past Quotes

Past does not only rake out skeletons from the cupboard. Past also brings back happy recollections. Those times do not rewind themselves and we do not get to relive those moments again. But they remain in the corner of our minds and we think about the days that have passed us by in order to cheer ourselves up later on. History teaches an individual an awful lot, the experience and the maturity that develops with age comes only much later. Read the famous quotations on history and past to know more.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
Future Psychosis
Narendra Modi

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The past relationship with Simpson no longer exists, and my views on that subject have already been expressed.
Robert Kardashian

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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.
Greatness
Mick Jagger

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I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.
Cool Right
Zayn Malik

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I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.
Milana Vayntrub

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Things I didn't have in the past I try to give to kids. I know how it feels not to have things. We were poor, but we had enough food to eat. It was a big family, four kids, and it was not like you could just go and buy something. But we had the essentials, the food.
Family Food
Mesut Ozil

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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
Future Life
William Wordsworth

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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
Future
William Morris

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Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
Chi Chi Rodriguez

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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
Life Teenagers Age Fulfillment
Cameron Diaz

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I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.
Miley Cyrus

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I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.
Doctor
James Randi

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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
Romance
Jack White

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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Opinion Sharing Thinking Experience
Omar Khayyam

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Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
Steven Wright

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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Responsibility Future Politics
John F. Kennedy

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The past cannot be cured.
Time
Elizabeth I

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Present
Golda Meir

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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
Experience
Pat Morita

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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
Best Youth
Lana Del Rey

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When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.
Sports
Kendall Jenner

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Life Future Mind
Gautama Buddha

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Past waters don't move anything. They only create mosquitoes.
Anderson Silva

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You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce Willis

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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Future
Zora Neale Hurston

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I think I'm past the age of getting lost.
Age
Amanda Seyfried

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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Present Future
Friedrich Nietzsche

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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Present Future
Alan Watts

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Future
Carl Sandburg

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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
Future History
John F. Kennedy

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I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.
Life
Drew Barrymore

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You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to private schools, you know, encountered different people who think that it's OK to make comments, insensitive comments about your race because they're joking. And think that if they're joking and they say it, you know, good-naturedly, that things will fly.
People Flying
Issa Rae

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Future
Oscar Wilde

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Time
Virginia Woolf

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I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
Good Future
Dan Quayle

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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Darkness Spirit Future
Alexis de Tocqueville

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I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.
Stars Success
Conor McGregor

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
People History
Napoleon Bonaparte

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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
Time Fitness
Oscar Pistorius

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I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
Age Peace
Courteney Cox

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As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.
Age Education Future
Pranab Mukherjee

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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
Greatness
Patrick Stewart

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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Nothing
Vladimir Nabokov

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Who wants their life and everything they have done for the past 25 years dragged in front of the American public?
Life
Robert Kardashian

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In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.
Work
Amanda Holden

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Future
Blaise Pascal

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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

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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Future Change Life
John F. Kennedy

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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Time
Johnny Cash

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We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.
Life Opportunities Future
Thurgood Marshall

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Everyone has a past, but I try not to let that affect the way I see them; I want to get to know who they are today.
Jurnee Smollett

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But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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

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I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.
Ron Howard

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Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and by changing our nation's future.
Politics Future Greatness
Pete Buttigieg

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Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
Recognition
Cary Grant

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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
History
George Santayana

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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
Dwayne Johnson

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I don't talk about the past.
Prince

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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.
Future Parents
Fred Rogers

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The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
Service
Chris Kyle

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I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it's up to us to find solutions today so that we don't keep passing our problems on.
Responsibility World
Shakira

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I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.
Love Music
Avicii

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Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.
Courtney Love

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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia

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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Elizabeth I

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There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.
Life
Daniel Radcliffe

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The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.
People Business
Hailey Baldwin

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Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.
Nothing Wars
Kim Jong-un

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

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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
Future Learning
Donald Trump

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In this bright future you can't forget your past.
Future
Bob Marley

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Inspiration Life Meaningful Motivation
Soren Kierkegaard

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Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
Best World
Prince Charles

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Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.
Cool
Cher

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The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.
Life
Lisa Bonet

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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
Nothing
John Maynard Keynes

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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
Life Nothing
George Eliot

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Society Future
Erich Fromm

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I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'
Time
Sarah Paulson

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I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything.
Love
Emilia Clarke

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I've always said I learned to defend myself from an opponent coming for a hard hit. Tricks are part of my repertoire; I use them to try to get past my opponents, but the objective is always to score goals.
Goals
Neymar

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If you're not a first-round pick or you're not 6-2, they always say you can't be the best. But the only time there's a weight class is before the draft. This is the NFL. It's all about what you do. I can run past guys and get done what I need to. I can do everything the big guy can do.
Best Time
Antonio Brown

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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
Future
Dan Quayle

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

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I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.
Family Money
Linda Evans

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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
Order Character
John Milton

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I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.
Books Remembrance Thinking Writers
Terri Guillemets

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I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
Greatness Future
Sylvester Stallone

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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
Mac Davis

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When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do.
Body
Demi Moore

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Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
Emma Thompson

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Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.
Sleep Morning
Sophia Bush

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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Future
Maya Angelou

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

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I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
Hope
Mariah Carey

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

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Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.
Future Trying
Lil Wayne

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I started talking about retiring in 1997. This is a brutal game, and 25 years of it ain't good for your health. After I get past Tarver on Saturday, give me Klitschko or Tyson. Otherwise, I'm outta here.
Good Health
Roy Jones Jr.

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