Past quotes
370 past quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Cat People
“- Irena Dubrovna Reed: I fled from the past. From things you could never know or understand. Evil things. Evil!
- Oliver Reed: You told me something of the past about King John and the witches in the village and the Cat People descended from them. They're fairy tales, Irena. Fairy tales heard in your childhood.” - From the movie: Message in a Bottle
“Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.”
- From the animation: Ice Age: The Meltdown
“Manny, you've come a long way since we first met, and I'll take the credit for that, but you need to let go of the past so you'll have a future.”
- From the movie: To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
“He's not going to fall for you. Live people can't compete with dead ones.”
- From the movie: Another Woman
“- Marion: But you want nothing around to even remind you of mother?
- Marion's Father: Well, there are times when even an historian shouldn't look at the past.
- Laura: Do you think at your age you can find someone and fall in love again?
- Marion's Father: One hopes at my age to build up an immunity.” - From the movie: No Country For Old Men
“All the time ya spend trying to get back what's been took from ya, more is going out the door. After a while you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it.”
- From the movie: Shadowlands
“We can't have the happiness of yesterday without the pain of today. That's the deal.”
- From the movie: Submerged
“You gotta live to talk about old times.”
- From the movie: Frida
“- Frida Kahlo: Don't think I am going to sleep with you just because you took me under your wing.
- Diego Rivera: Before you came along, I was painting murals and womanizing in peace.” - From the movie: Mumford
“- Skip Skipperton: Are you telling me that your last job before becoming a psychologist was an investigator for the IRS?
- Dr. Mumford: Everybody has a story, Skip.
- Skip Skipperton: Seems like you got the variety pack.” - From the movie: Antwone Fisher
- From the movie: Back to the Future Part III
“- Dr. Emmett Brown: Well, good luck for both of our sakes. See you in the future.
- Marty McFly: You mean the past.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Exactly!” - From the movie: Hairspray
“You can't stop today as it comes speeding down the track! Child, yesterday is history, and it's never coming back!”
- From the movie: Freejack
- Alex Furlong: What about us?
- Julie Redlund: "Us" was eighteen years ago.
- Alex Furlong: It's two days for me. Two days, Julie. “- Doug Carlin: He's gonna kill her. In twelve hours, he's gonna kill her.
- Jack McCready: He killed her four days ago! You were at the funeral, what's wrong with you?”- From the movie: Evil Dead II
“We are the things that were and shall be again!”
- From the movie: Life Or Something Like It
“Someone once said, live everyday as if it were your last, cause one of these its gonna be. Jack was right, a part of me did die that day, the part of me that didn't know how to live.”
- From the movie: Pump Up the Volume
“Everything decent's been done. All the great themes have been used up. Turned into theme parks.”
- From the movie: The Cannonball Run
“Jamie Blake! Yeah, you used to drive that Formula One. When high-buttoned shoes were in style!”
- From the movie: Thick as Thieves
“No one wants to let go of the past. Well, I'm letting go of the past, Ricky, 'cause guys like you and me, we have to worry about the future. Am I right?”
- From the movie: Being There
“A man's past cripples him. His background turns into a swamp and invites scrutiny.”
- From the movie: Crossroads
- From the movie: The Beautician and the Beast
- From the movie: The Godfather
“Times have changed. It's not like the Old Days when we can do anything we want. A refusal is not the act of a friend.”
- From the movie: The Powerpuff Girls Movie
“Fear not, fair viewers. For there is a man, a man of science. A forward thinking man who looks back. Back to a sweeter time, when there was a spice to life and everything was nice!”
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