Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
You can never plan the future by the past.
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
One faces the future with one's past.
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.
The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.
The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.