Country Quote by L.P. Hartley

“Yes, the past is a foreign country", I said, "but some of us are full-fledged citizens, others occasional tourists, and some floating itinerants, itching…

— André Aciman

“The past is a foreign country.” —L. P. Hartley”

— Annie Jacobsen

Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation - like…

— Elif Batuman

“Recounting the experience of individuals brings home, as nothing else can, the sheer complexity of the choices they had to make, and the difficult…

— Richard J. Evans

“The past, as we have been told so many times, is a foreign country where things are done differently.”

— Julian Fellowes

A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.

— Lucie Arnaz

I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters,…

— Drew Barrymore

Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters…

— Jacki Weaver

This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“You grew up too fast, baby." Didn't always feel that way, especially this morning when I couldn't find my other flip-flop and I'd been,…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

— Anonymous