Past Quotes

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

~ Charles Dickens

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

~ Frederick Jackson Turner

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

~ Kelley Armstrong

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

~ David Bowie

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

~ John Updike

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

~ Knut Hamsun

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

~ Bob Hope

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

~ Julia Ward Howe

As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.

~ Dorothea Dix

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

~ André Maurois

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

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.

~ Sophia Bush

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

~ Maya Angelou

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

~ Jimmy Carter

I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'

~ Jensen Ackles

I want to go to Mexico. I've been stonewalled, so far, by federal officials. I want to go to Mexico, and I want to meet with the top Mexican officials. I want to tell them my past experience and what I can do here as Sheriff to help them get better intelligence and communications on the drug thing, not the illegal immigration thing.

~ Joe Arpaio

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

~ Tom Vilsack

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

~ Michelle Dockery

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

~ Louis Kahn

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

~ Richard Rogers

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

~ Peter Zumthor

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

~ Mario Botta

'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.

~ Darryl Pinckney

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

~ Moshe Safdie

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

~ John Portman

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

~ Samuel Dash

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

~ George S. Patton

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

~ Willie Nelson

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

~ Denis Waitley

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

~ Louise L. Hay

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

~ Pam Dawber

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

~ Osman Rashid

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

~ Monica Johnson

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.

~ Donald Trump

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

~ Cal Ripken

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

~ Euripides

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

~ Mike Nichols

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

~ Tyler Florence