Past quotes
370 past quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Twelve Monkeys
“There was this guy, and he was always requesting shows that had already played. Yes. No. You have to tell her before. He couldn't quite grasp the idea that the charge nurse couldn't make it be yesterday. She couldn't turn back time, thank you, Einstein! Now, he was nuts! He was a fruitcake, Jim!”
- From the movie: The Insider
“I did Iran-Gate and the Ayatollah, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Saddam, Sadat, etcetera, etcetera. I showed them thieves in suits. I've spent a lifetime building all that. But history only remembers most what you did last. And should that be fronting a segment that allowed a tobacco giant to crash this network? Does it give someone at my time...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Home on the Range
“Once upon a time, I had a home on the range. But not anymore. It's no use cryin' over spilled milk.”
- From the movie: Donnie Darko
“What if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?”
- From the movie: Red Dragon
- From the movie: Dazed and Confused
“Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did I the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place... Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place.”
- From the movie: The Lake House
“- Alex Wyler: What's it like in the year 2006?
- Kate Forster: Well, I'm afraid the world's pretty much the same. Of course, we all dress in shiny metal jumpsuits and drive flying cars and no one talks anymore because we can read each other's minds... but, the truth is, from the past, not much has really changed in 2006.” - From the movie: The Vanishing
“- Rita Baker: She's gone, Jeff. She's gone. You may never know how or why, you just have to learn to accept that.
- Jeff Harriman: If Diane were here right now, I'd ask you to marry me. But the truth is, if I could turn back the clock to that day at the gas station just once, I would. Just to find out.” - From the movie: Back to the Future Part II
“- Marty McFly: The Almanac. Son of a bitch stole my idea! He must have been listening when I- It's my fault! The whole thing is my fault. If I hadn't bought that damn book, none of this would have ever happened.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Well, that's all in the past.
- Marty McFly: You mean the future.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Whatever! It demonstrates...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Posse
- From the movie: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
“- Dr. Evil: Gentlemen, I have a plan. It's called blackmail. The Royal Family of Britain are the wealthiest landowners in the world. Either the Royal Family pays us an exorbitant amount of money, or we make it seen that Prince Charles has had an affair outside of marriage and therefore would have to divorce!
- Number Two: Prince Charles did have...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Vanity Fair
- From the movie: Showtime
“What happened to the good old days where people would just grow pot in their garages?”
- From the movie: The Green Mile
“I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not.”
- From the movie: The Sixth Sense
“- Cole Sear: They used to hang people here.
- Stanley Cunningham: No, that... mm-mm, that's not correct. Where'd you hear that?
- Cole Sear: They'd pull the people in, crying and kissing their families 'bye. People watching would spit at them.
- Stanley Cunningham: Uh, Cole, this building was a legal courthouse. Laws were passed here. Some of...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Lion King
“Going back means I'll have to face my past. I've been running from it for so long.”
- From the movie: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“It would be easy to say that the pants changed everything that summer. But looking back now I feel like our lives changed because they had to, and that the real magic of the pants was in bearing witness to all of this and in somehow holding us together when it felt like nothing would ever be the same again.”
- From the movie: Cool as Ice
“It's not where you're from, it's where you're at.”
- From the movie: Forrest Gump
My Mama always said "you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on".
- From the movie: Eight Legged Freaks
- From the movie: Bless the Child
“- Bugatti: There's a rumor that before you joined the precinct you were a priest.
- John Travis: I was a seminary student, I didn't make it as far as priesthood.
- Bugatti: Still, that is some kind of makeover. What happened?
- John Travis: I found another way to fight him... Okay, ready?
- Bugatti: ...Fight who?” - From the movie: Hearts in Atlantis
“Whenever it wants, the past can come kicking the door down. And you never know where it's going to take you. All you can do is hope it's a place you want to go.”
- From the movie: Young Guns II
- From the movie: Krull
- From the animation: Sleeping Beauty
“You're living in the past, Father! This is the 14th century!”
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