#past

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. ↗

— John Berger

#dying #gradually #grows #like #past

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#been #cannot #clear #course #future

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#new #new york #past #powerful #present

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#because #big #big band #did #i

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her. ↗

— Julie Walters

#felt #haunts #her #i #me

What's past is prologue. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#past

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#learn #master #past #teacher #experience

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #past #present #tears

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#nostalgia #recollection #past

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#schedule #tea #toast #past