Top 1200 Remembering The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Now, you can bring up the past, but anybody can bring up the past. Even my daughter brings up the past sometimes. She makes a lot of jokes about the things that I've done.

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

When I wrestle best is when I have a hard time remembering.

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. I'm not impressed by the past very much. The past bores me, to tell you the truth; it really bores me. I don't remember many movies and certainly not my own.

Photography is just light remembering itself.

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering

Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

I'm, like, really bad at remembering names.

The past is the past. We're not going to spend energy on the past, because it's going to detract from us going forward.

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?

You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds

For inspiration you go to the archives, you go to things of the past, but you still need to be contemporary for today. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back.

I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.

The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.

Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.

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.

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.

As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at the discriminatory past. It's only fair that people of color get their taste of the wealth of America too.

I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget.

Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.

Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

Remembering in an honest way means admitting the truth.

You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

I thought acting was just going on and remembering all of one's lines.

The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.

I'm usually pretty good at remembering the melodies that I wrote.

Doing voices is like singing and remembering songs.

Somewhere in the future I am remembering today.

People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.