#past

You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one ↗

— Unknown

#living #past #present #life

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#past #life

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#god #gods #past

I am not nostalgic for the past. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#i #i am #nostalgic #past

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#always #build #freedom #ideal #lost

If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#green #opera #sell #toothpaste #you

I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#coral #find #growth #had #i

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record. ↗

— Richard Marx

#always #been #carrying #in the past #much

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. ↗

— David McCullough

#better #forgets #function #individual #nation

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. ↗

— George H. Mead

#imagery #images #mental #mental processes #order