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Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

It was always a matter of wonder to Vandover that he was able to recall so little of his past life. (Quote by - Frank Norris)

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past. (Quote by - Clement Freud)

Sports broadcasters are the only reporters who describe past events in the future tense. (Quote by - Burnett Anderson)

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. (Quote by - John Lyly)

No traces left of all the busy scene, But that remembrances says: The things have been. (Quote by - Samuel Boyse)

You have been an immense figure in the government over this past decade, fulfilling a number of crucial positions in case this leaves you none the wiser, it was about John Reid! (Quote by - Tony Blair)

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do. (Quote by - Gianni Versace)

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. (Quote by - Knut Hamsun)

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. (Quote by - Dale Turner)

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. (Quote by - Tom Hopkins)

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post (Quote by - Thomas Holcroft)

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful. (Quote by - Rene Russo)

John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent. (Quote by - Robert Burns)

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)

The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past. (Quote by - Alfred Bunn)

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months. (Quote by - Oren Arnold)

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days. (Quote by - Gerald Barzan)

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)

People take less interest in grammar and syntax these days than in the past and it certainly shows when you read literature and written words these days. (Quote by - Wolcott Gibbs)

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight. (Quote by - Mortimer Collins)

Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas pere)

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. (Quote by - Edna Ferber)

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. (Quote by - Golda Meir)

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