Top 100 My Past Quotes
#1. I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.
Steven Hatfill
#2. Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.
Mason Cooley
#3. I will move on. I will smile and laugh and dance. I will run, not from my past, but toward my future. Towards ... me.
Alysha Speer
#4. I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.
Kesha
#6. I am the sum of my past experience.
Some people have got a lot to answer for.
Peter James West
#8. There were many reasons why I chose to stay silent about my past for so long, mostly fear and shame. Now im older and wiser.Now I understand that I should never have to live in fear of another human being, and if I do, that's their shame, not mine.
Gabriella Gillespie
#9. There seems to be something pure in pulling from a place in time that's "innocent" and untouched by outward opinion. I wanted this album to have threads of my past to enrich the topics I wanted to address about aging.
Brooke Waggoner
#10. Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
Felix Baumgartner
#11. You're my past, my present, and my future. You're my life, Anna. I love you.
Samantha Chase
#12. My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
Steve Maraboli
#13. My past is trying to catch up to me and I must continue run from it. It's the only way I can live.
Nicole Sobon
#14. I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.
Charles R. Swindoll
#15. Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe.
Jill Telford
#16. My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.
Jaeda DeWalt
#17. I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
Adam Shankman
#18. I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces of my greatest hits - that's a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.
Billy Idol
#19. I openly talk about my past because we should embrace our mistakes and our dark times, because without them we'd never have the lessons and the light.
Kathryn Perez
#20. God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
Ginger Baker
#21. As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.
Marilyn Monroe
#22. Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry.
~Kurogane-san
CLAMP
#23. I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix ... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.
Burton Silverman
#24. After you reach a certain age, they think you're over. Well, I will never be over. I'll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I've done that in my past, and I'd do it again.
Dolly Parton
#25. I made sure I let go of my past, accepting the fact that that part of my life was only a small fraction of my life.
Dave Pelzer
#26. She was dangerous. I'd heard the rumors, that she had a history as a wild woman, that she'd been married to a gambler, maybe even been one herself, that her past was scandalous at best. But who was I to judge? My past was littered with scandal.
Margaret Madigan
#27. Don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in
the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy
man.
Paulo Coelho
#28. It may be a small piece at a time, but my past is yours now. All of it. Anything you want to know, I want to tell you. But only if you promise me I can also have your future.
Colleen Hoover
#29. Siva asking about my past? Were we going to sing campfire songs and hold hands now?
Sloane
Micalea Smeltzer
#30. I can't defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better.
Debasish Mridha
#31. One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came when a girl I loved very much, who I had been estranged from for some time, killed herself.
Kate Zambreno
#32. During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.
Tom Rachman
#33. Solitude gives me a chance to read and think, and now that the memories are coming through again - to rediscover my past, to find out who and what I really am. If anything should go wrong, I'll have at least that.
Daniel Keyes
#34. A corresponding story was set to everyone of us, a story that we live as it would be true. My luck is that I remember my "past" life
Annarita Faggioni
#35. I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.
Billy Corgan
#36. Im afraid to live in the future because of my past yet i dwell in the past and look forward to change in the future
Cheyenne
#37. But, I realized, these truths are all I have. They are my past. They are what makes me human. Without them, I am nothing. Nothing but an animal. I
S.J. Watson
#38. I couldn't dream of a future, I couldn't reliably remember my past.
Linda Collison
#39. Through my writing, I learned my Life Lessons from all the experiences in my past, good and bad. Letting go of the drama we create for ourselves is the biggest gift we can ever receive.
KoKo Nervelli
#40. I'm glad I'm still in motion. I don't think of my past achievements. The most important thing is what I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm happy I did what I did. Thanks be to God.
Manu Dibango
#41. I know I've not had these things in my past, but I want them in my future.
E.L. James
#42. I WAS a mermaid in my past-life! I definitely was. I don't know why I'm obsessed with them that much, which is why I think that somehow in my past-life I must have just lived underwater or something. Maybe I was a fish or a dolphin, but I do believe in mermaids.
Ella Henderson
#43. I was reckless and crazy and I never learned from my past mistakes. Ever.
Debra Dunbar
#44. I recently read that 99% of dieters fail to maintain their weight loss and, given my past experience, that statistic feels true to me!
Celso Cukierkorn
#45. It was funny, in a twisted sort of way, that night I gained my future was the same night I lost my past.
Kelley R. Martin
#46. I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.
Drew Barrymore
#47. And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s; certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep.
Robert Barry
#48. I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.
Emily Procter
#49. I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me, things I can easily rewrite and adapt to my new perspective.
Robin Sacredfire
#50. All those pictures in my past, now that reminding me of just how beautiful You are.
Big Daddy Weave
#51. Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.
Katrina Kaif
#52. My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past
Munia Khan
#53. What does it mean that my past is a fog but my present is brilliant, bursting with sound and color?
Isaac Marion
#54. My past may discourage me and my future may frighten me, but "the life I now live" today can be enriching and encouraging because "Christ lives in me" (Gal. 2:20).
Warren W. Wiersbe
#55. Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali.
Chip Conley
#56. I just graduated with a degree in economics, and I worked at a hospital for my past two summers. I'd love a job at a health-related website. I know you once worked for WebMD, and I'd really welcome a personal introduction.
Kate White
#57. I weigh my past against my future, but find them both admirable, cannot give either the preference, and find nothing to grumble at save the injustice of Providence that has so clearly favored me.
Franz Kafka
#58. My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.
Bharati Mukherjee
#59. I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
Lorna Luft
#60. I'm a grenade, one day I'm going to explode a destroy everything in my past.
John Green
#61. Jethro had successfully torn me from my past, stripped me of my mind, and abducted my heart.
Pepper Winters
#62. I am part of the Fellowship of the Unashamed ... My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is in God's hands ... I am a disciple of Jesus. I must go till he comes, give until I drop, speak out until all know, and work until he stops me.
Patrick Madrid
#63. In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.
Pia Zadora
#64. My past is my wisdom to use today ... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver
#65. Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.
Marie Osmond
#66. I never regret my past ... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.
Tyga
#67. I'd rather look back at my past and say, "I can't believe I did that!" instead of saying "I wish I did that.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#68. I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.
Anne Rice
#69. My past is what God expects me to use to help others through their present.
Toni Sorenson
#70. They ask what I often refer to as the best question ever: In light of my past experience, and my future hopes and dreams, what's the wise thing to do?
Andy Stanley
#71. All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.
David Mixner
#72. In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.
Susan Orlean
#73. With my past forgiven, my present secure, and my future irrevocably guaranteed, why shouldn't I be enthusiastically optimistic?
Zig Ziglar
#74. I appreciate you more because of the road I've traveled. My story brought me to you, and I wouldn't revise a word of my past if it led me any where but to your door.
Aaron Polson
#75. I am slowly learning to pluck the flowers of my past from the weeds, and place them in the window where I can see them first. ~Call Me Tuesday
Leigh Byrne
#76. I do not laugh; I do not cry;
I'm sweating out the will to die.
My past is sliding down the drain;
I soon will be myself again.
Theodore Roethke
#77. I didn't just see a future when I looked at Luke - I saw the explanations of my past.
Nicole Williams
#78. I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!
Traci Lords
#79. You are my future, Kacie. You're my present and my future and if I could figure out a way to invent a damn time machine, you'd be my past.
Beth Ehemann
#80. Why the war paint, Pix?
Because I can't stand the girl underneath....
"Why the tattoos ?"
Because I can't bear seeing the scars of my past.
Tillie Cole
#81. In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
Zadie Smith
#82. If I could undo my past for you, McKenzie, I would. But I don't have that power. No fae does.
Sandy Williams
#83. I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money.
Graham Parke
#84. I looked up from the street and again at the wretched captives. I vowed not to let the noises of the city drown out their voices or rob me of my past. It was less painful to forget, but I would look and I would remember.
Lawrence Hill
#85. I had to decide in the next few seconds: Would I let my past keep screwing up my present and my future?
Jeri Smith-Ready
#86. I love you Kaname-sama. You are the beginning of of my world, and everything in that world ... So even if I couldn't remember my past ... I wasn't scared
Matsuri Hino
#87. Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.
Elizabeth Taylor
#88. Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
Viktor E. Frankl
#90. I guess you could say I'm 'kind' to my past books in the way you might be kind to an old boyfriend you still quite like and bear no grudge against but with whom have absolutely no interest in getting back together.
Lynn Coady
#91. My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?
Hideo Kojima
#92. I was free to appreciate these former interests of mine rather than worry about not participating in them. The 100 Thing Challenge proved a handy way to get rid of stuff that was never going to fix my past or make me someone that I was not.
Dave Bruno
#93. Whenever I can't sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I've been assassinated. I've found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I'm in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.
Chuck Klosterman
#94. If tomorrow will be the end of the world, I will spend my today by looking at the pictures of my past!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.
Shai Agassi
#96. Life has let me down several times, that I have learnt to cope with my pain in different situations while at the same time, learning through comparing my past problems and the current obstacles am facing.
Auliq Ice
#97. I wasn't born to love you. I was born to lose you. You are my sad song. My melancholy mix. You were my past until you crashed into my present. But you will never be my future.
Katie Kacvinsky
#98. Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#99. When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
Vladimir Nabokov
#100. Haven't my past sermons taught you anything?"
"Yes," Emilie threw at him, "that you pray for those who are close to God, and those who aren't, who need Him, you toss away like garbage.
Ann Rinaldi
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