4,591 Quotes About Past

  • Author Tom Vilsack
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    Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

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  • Author Yanis Varoufakis
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    Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.

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  • Author Ai Weiwei
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    ...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

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  • Author Alan Watts
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    We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

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  • Author Alice Walker
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    I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

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  • Author Allison Watson
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    We're saying if you want to get people-ready, get it from our partners, here are our partners. So far, we've had over 12,000 searches in our beta-testing of the tool over the past two weeks.

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  • Author Andrew Weil
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    I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

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  • Author Andrzej Wajda
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    Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

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