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Quotes About Past

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~ Harlan Coben
I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.
~ Robbie Williams
I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.
~ Diablo Cody
I think horror films in the past maybe touched on social themes having to do with whatever era in which they were made, but in the end, it's definitely an escapist form of entertainment.
~ Brooke Nevin
I'm no longer a shoeaholic, but I used to be. I used to spend all my time on tour either buying records or shoes.
~ Jamie Cullum
I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
~ John Cusack
When foreign tourists come to Seoul, they will likely want to experience the city more. The city combines past, present and future landscapes that cannot be found elsewhere.
~ Park Won-soon
The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.
~ Chris Van Allsburg
The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
~ Hun Sen
Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.
~ Alex Campbell
My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
~ Pierce Brosnan
It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.
~ Robert Towne
Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past - not just through historical documents, but through actual physical remains - objects, buildings and the layout of our towns.
~ Alice Roberts
There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
~ Christopher Fowler
New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets.
~ Debbie Ford
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
~ Helena Blavatsky
I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.
~ James Denton
Usually when I talk with other drivers, it's about past races, what they did, tips for different tracks, especially others in the Ford family.
~ Hailie Deegan
Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
~ Edmund Morgan
To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.
~ Paula McLain
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
~ Bob Dylan
It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
~ Farley Mowat
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
~ George Eliot
Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
~ Jasper Fforde