Quotes about the past

My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

Khalil Gibran

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Sigmund Freud

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

David Bowie

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

Theodore Roosevelt

Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness, And knows that ‘yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Khalil Gibran

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

Woodrow Wilson

For when you are on the spot, disorders are detected in their beginnings and remedies can be readily applied; but when you are at a distance, they are not heard of until they have gathered strength and the case is past cure.

Niccolo Machiavelli

God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

Bob Goff

This is my 20th year in the sport. I’ve known swimming and that’s it. I don’t want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I’ll be 31. I’m looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Michael Phelps

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President’s “Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn.” I want to deny that!

John F. Kennedy