Past Quotes

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

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

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

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.