Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Past

We cannot escape history.
— Abraham Lincoln
We are not to forget but to overcome. That happens through gratitude. We are not supposed to solve the unsolved puzzle of the past and fall into tortuous brooding, but to let even the incomprehensible stand and return it peacefully to God's hand. This happens through humility. "He has done everything well.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again
— Dolly Parton
Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain.
— Donald Justice
In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.
— Donald Trump
Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!
— Joel Osteen
Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
— Erwin McManus
In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.
— Ernest Hemingway
You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened?
— Ernest Hemingway
Leave me with my memories. With my true, beautiful memories.
— Ernest Hemingway
We're no kin, Thomas Hudson said. We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.
— Ernest Hemingway
Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and can be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands … and must be earned.
— Andy Andrews