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Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

Mattie Stepanek

Hope

I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Past

Present

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

Bruce Springsteen

People

Past

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

Mickey Spillane

Past

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

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.