History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
History is a relentless master. it has no present, only the past rushing into the future. to try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Who controls the past controls the future. who controls the present controls the past.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Study the past if you would define the future.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, all we ever have is now.