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Past Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive…
- My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
- High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
- The past is all we know of the future.
- Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
- Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing…
- Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working…
More Past Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach