My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.
I'm inspired by antiques. I look at things that have a wink to the past but are also reinterpreted in some way and made to feel modern... and maybe that's what I am.
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
I don't live in the past.
Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical.
John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.
During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.
There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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.
The resulting prints of 'History's Shadow' make the invisible visible and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself and the continuous presence of the past contained within us.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.
I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.
I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States.
In the past, Federal Reserve chairmen have not generally gone directly to the public.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
