Past Quotes

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.

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

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

For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

But that in and of itself this past year was not a factor in what I did for the national team every time I stepped out there, or in training, or when I stepped out there in the WUSA.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops.

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.

I am not nostalgic for the past.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.

But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point.