That was your past. I am your future. - Jus Accardo I don't know why I'm scared. I've been here before every feeling every word i've imagined it all. You never know if you never try to forget your past and simply be mine - Adele You are not in competition with anybody except yourself;plan to outdo your past not other people. - Jaachynma N E Agu You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past. - Habeeb Akande Tell me about your family, I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way. - Mitch Albom You are not your past. - Mitch Albom You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not...

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. - Lynn Abbey I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future. - Ronald Reagan He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. - Theodor Adorno Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past. - James Joyce We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new. - Paulo Coelho The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was...

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past. - Walt Disney Company But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile boy he had been, had no place on a man's journey towards his future. - Madeline Claire Franklin I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. - Pierre Loti

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. - Tobias Wolff People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other. - Floyd Mayweather Jr I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify those things in the past that are useful and those things that are not; and they ought to give nourishment. - Toni Morrison

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. - Mark Twain When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. - Lynn Abbey Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. - Berenice Abbott Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground. - King Abdullah Ii One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other choices. - Joe Abercr...

The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it. - Nicholas Sparks The past is the past. I believe that people can change, under the right conditions (like plastic surgery). - Jarod Kintz I guess it doesn't make sense to hate you anymore. As Lorelei is so quick to say, the past is the past and it can do us no harm unless we let it. (Jack) - Kinley Macgregor

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another. - Aberjhani If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. - John Acton How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind? - Douglas Adams The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty. - Cassandra Clare I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you're from or what you did before. - Isabel Allende The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith i...