Past Quotes

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Golda Meir

Topics: Cannot, Past, Present

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Future, Life, Nothing

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Dan Quayle

Topics: Future, Good, Made

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people – I don't want to judge it or anything – but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Topics: Age, Life, Me

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Topics: Age, Great, Long

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Katharine Hepburn

Topics: Age, Past, Sex

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Terry Pratchett

Topics: Age, Art, Die

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

David Bowie

Topics: Age, Like, Music

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Charles Dickens

Topics: Age, Bores, Chivalry

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Knut Hamsun

Topics: Age, Like, Old Age