O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes Of these poor Might-Have-Beens, These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays. (Quote by - William Ernest Henley)

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior)

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present (Quote by - Alexander Maclaren)

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. (Quote by - Amy Lowell)

I'm like milk. Once it's gone past its expiry date you can't drink it anymore (Quote by - Luis Aragones)

That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky! (Quote by - Nicola Roberts)

Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now. (Quote by - Elizabeth Janeway)

The stereotype footballer - big and butch - is a thing of the past. (Quote by - Sheila Edmonds)

This is amazing - he has a chance this very afternoon to put history into the past. (Quote by - Tony Green)

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past. (Quote by - Lee Grant)

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe. (Quote by - Edgar Guest)

The past is not a package one can lay away. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. (Quote by - Barbara De Angelis)

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection. (Quote by - Richard Gere)

One faces the future with one's past. (Quote by - Pearl Buck)

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. (Quote by - Paul Merton)

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either. (Quote by - Thomas H. Raddal)

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (Quote by - George Santayana)

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes. (Quote by - Jill Dando)

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. (Quote by - Quevedo)

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. (Quote by - Wendell Berry)

Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine, For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow againe. (Quote by - Thomas Percy)

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)