People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in…

“She found it hard to believe that there would be any bold moves, because too many people had dirty flour in their bags, and…

— Sofi Oksanen

“After being approached at his mother’s funeral by a man who told him that Mary had “single-handedly saved America’s space program…and nobody knows it…

— Sam Maggs

“I have tried to use memory and invention together, like two hands engaged in the same muddy work of digging up the past.”

— Emma Donoghue

“Someone once told me that digging up the past has two sides: The pro is that you remember things you had forgotten about. Unfortunately,…

— Pete Wentz

“Sometimes it’s better not to know. Nothing can change what is or what happened and digging around in the past is only going to…

— Mary Campisi

“It’s not always a good idea, digging around in the past,” he said. “I done that once. I went to see the girl who…

— Elizabeth Berg

“I am not sure that digging in our past guilts is a useful occupation for the very old, given that one can do so…

— Diana Athill

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of…

— Bayard Taylor

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and…

— Aldo Leopold

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of…

— Jean Plaidy

“One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or…

— Patrice Pavis

The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution…

— Adrienne Rich

The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely…

— Alexey Leonov

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…

— Lord Byron