Mamacita says:  “Shades of the past” is an expression I occasionally use.  I’ve said it several times these past holiday weeks, in fact.  So I thought, well, why not use it as the theme for this week’s Quotation Saturday?

I know it’s Sunday now.  Shhhhh.

How very seemly to quote about the past when my deadline is past.

1. Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. — George Ade

2. The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. — Barbara De Angelis

3. It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. — Kenneth Auchincloss

4. Nostalgia is a seductive liar. — George W. Ball

5. The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. — Ivern Ball

6. A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. — Sir James M. Barrie

7. The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. — John Berger

8. The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri L. Bergson

9. If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. — Les Brown

10. One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. — Michael Cibenko

11. To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton

12. The past always looks better than it was because it isn’t here. — Finley Peter Dunne

13. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. — Leslie P. Hartley

14. If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change. — Robert Hewison

15. If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. — Russell Hoban

16. Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened. — Gerald W. Johnson

17. What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now. — Unknown

18. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. — Wayne Dyer

19. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. —
Paul Boese

20. I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.– Sophia Loren

21. Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again. — Robert Brault

22. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. — Euripides

23. When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. — Bob Hope

24. Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. — William Ralph Ing

25. We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. — Stephen Covey

26. For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. — John F. Kennedy

27. Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. — Oscar Wilde

28. Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. — George S. Patton

29. A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. — Marcus Garvey

30. We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present. — Marianne Williamson

31. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes

32. You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. — Denis Waitley

33. 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. — Thomas Sowell

34. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. — Erich Fromm

35. We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. — George Santayana

36. Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. — Ray Bradbury

37. If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. — William James

38. The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. — George Eliot

39. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. — Thomas Carlyle

40. The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

41. Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. — Vladimir Nabokov

42. The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
— Zora Neale Hurston

43. Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. — Corrie Ten Boom

44. A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. — Honore de Balzac

45. If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. — Baruch Spinoza

46. You can’t undo the past… but you can certainly not repeat it. — Bruce Willis

47. Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. — Doug Larson

48. God gave us memory that we might have roses in December. — Sir James M. Barrie

49. Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. — John Wayne

50. Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead. — Lillie Langtry