4,591 Quotes About Past

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.

To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

It's not like I did nothing those past two trips.

There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.