Leaving the Past Behind Quotes

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

You'd like people to remember you for these great times on the ice. In reality, you want them to forget because you're doing something new and better.

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

Obviously, I have a lot of memories here... but at the same time I'm going to put all my energies into moving forward and doing my best for the Thrashers.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

We will go forward... we will never go back.

his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again-it's all good.

I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on the beanstalk for a moment, then returned to mine. "You believe now. Be safe and smart up there, my Gen. Be yourself." Before I could answer, my mother turned away and walked quickly toward the house. I turned to face the beanstalk. There is no going back now, I thought. For better or worse, there was only going forward. There was only going up. Seizing the trunk of the beanstalk with both hands, I pushed off from the World Below and began to climb.

I have moved on. I have moved forward.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

I don't regret leaving Napoli.

I had a bad break up at university - you know, when your heart breaks for the very first time, and you think, 'I must leave this island,' as if it had never happened to anyone before. I said 'OK, I'll go to England,' and it was the best decision I ever made.

I think of L.A. as my home now, in large part because I became the entity that I am in L.A. I always say to people that my coming-of-age happened in L.A., the unraveling of the person I was pretending to be for a long time, and then finding of the person I feel like I now am.