Past Like Quotes
32 quotes by 29 authors
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In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For…
— Anton Chekhov
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Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did no good. My…
— Rex Harrison
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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all…
— Zadie Smith
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
— Robert Smithson
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I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your…
— Edwidge Danticat
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One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It…
— Mal Peet
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The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at…
— Brady Udall
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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
— Stephen Hawking
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The brain heals the past like an injury ...
— Arthur Miller
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Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
— John Cusack
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I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something…
— Marc Jacobs
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
— Ronald Reagan
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
— Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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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.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the…
— Alexander Masters
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There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
— Ian Mckellen
Who Wrote These Past Like Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 32 Past Like Quotes, led by these top contributors: