What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for. – American Indian Proverb
There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated. – Proverb
Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten. – Proverb
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. – John Adams
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. – George Ade
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. – Spiro T. Agnew
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past – Henri Frederic Amiel
Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more. – Matthew Arnold
It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. – Kenneth Auchincloss
One must always maintain ones connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. – Gaston Bachelard
There is a way to look at the past. Dont hide from it. It will not catch you — if you dont repeat it. – Pearl Bailey
The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. – Ivern Ball
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, – Charlotte Barnard
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you dont find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. – James Barrie
As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebodys good old days. – Gerald Barzan
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future. – Mary Catherine Bateson
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round. – Arnold Bennett
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. – John Berger
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson
