
You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. —
V.T. Davy

Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers. —
Nicholas Ostler

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future. —
Adrian Rogers

I'm not going to say that a very young Charlie Weber is without his indiscretions. But not anymore; I'm way past those days. —
Charlie Weber

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true. —
Sathya Sai Baba

Let nothing distract you from your opponent. He is between you and the rest of your life, and you must move past him to see it. —
Scott James Magner

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins. —
Richard Paul Evans

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals —
John Vanbrugh

She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself. —
Jenny Han

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. —
Paul Merton

Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you. —
Eddie Mair

The future for me is already a thing of the past -
You were my first love and you will be my last —
Bob Dylan

If I were going to give you my future, I'd need you to move on from the past. —
Jamie McGuire

We must also suffer the consequences of our past decisions. And for that, we must open our hearts to those in need. —
Katharine Hayhoe

How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives? —
Kyo Maclear

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present. —
Rajneesh

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's. —
Sarah Addison Allen

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo. —
Mickey Spillane

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past. —
Nick Park

The past can not be cured. —
Elizabeth I

Heritage is a matter of the stories we choose to tell about our past, as well as the stories we overlook. —
Steve Inskeep

Children are our future. Unfortunately, we are their past. —
Ljupka Cvetanova

Such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension —
Charlotte Bronte

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind. —
Jennifer Capriati

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now. —
Alan Watts

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world. —
J.G. Ballard

It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full. —
Auliq Ice

What's past is prologue, and the world awaits. —
Lisa Mantchev

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless. —
Merle Shain

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original. —
Carine Roitfeld