Quotes about the past

The past is but the past of a beginning.

H. G. Wells

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

Sigmund Freud

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

Billy Graham

A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

Ronald Reagan

I myself believe that there is in every painter’s life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.

Vincent Van Gogh

I go to restaurants and the groups always play “Yesterday.” I even signed a guy’s violin in Spain after he played us ‘Yesterday.’ He couldn’t understand that I didn’t write the song. But I guess he couldn’t have gone from table to table playing ‘I Am The Walrus.’

John Lennon

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

Ovid

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

William Faulkner

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Abraham Lincoln

Forget the past.

Nelson Mandela