Past quotes

“Back in the Middle Ages, in more noble times, when a knight failed his king, that knight would throw himself onto his sword to avoid the humiliation of being ostracized by his peers for his incompetence and cowardice.”
Gregg Henry - Robert Gant

“Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther and one fine morning. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Tobey Maguire - Nick Carraway

“- Sage: So you used to like men?
- Elle: I always liked women, I just didn't like myself.”
Julia Garner - Sage
Lily Tomlin - Elle Reid

“She could see the world with painful accuracy, but she couldn't see herself or her fate. And because I was in love with her I decided I couldn't see it either.”

Lola Kirke - Tracy

“Niggas! Two thousand years after Jesus, thirty years after Martin Luther King, the age of Montel; sweet Lord of mercy is that where we at?”
Irma P. Hall - Marva Munson

“- Dale Arbus: Let the past be the past.
- Nick Hendricks: Yeah. The past? Well, we're not in the fucking past. We're in the goddamn present.”
Charlie Day - Dale Arbus
Jason Bateman - Nick Hendricks

“- Danny McGuire: Don't tell anyone, but I'm nervous.
- Kira: What about?
- Danny McGuire: I haven't had a club opening since... 1945. Wow.
- Kira: Then just pretend it's 1945 all over again.
- Danny McGuire: I don't have to pretend. It is 1945 all over again.”
Gene Kelly - Danny McGuire
Olivia Newton-Jonn - Kira

“We were once a great people. Now we live in ruins. The kings of our past would weep if they could see how far we have fallen.”
Cree Summer - Princess 'Kida' Kidagakash

“- Alan Parrish: Twenty-six years ago, you played a game with a little boy down the street. A game with drums.
- Sarah Whittle: How do you know that?
- Alan Parrish: I was that little boy, Sarah.”
Robin Williams - Alan Parrish
Bonnie Hunt - Sarah Whittle

“We were friends. We were better than brothers.”

Ralph Fiennes - Harry Hawkes

“People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed. ”
Kirk Douglas

“Maybe in a past life I was a poet - or an artist.”
Noah Wyle - Steve Jobs

“How do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart? It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out till you're torn apart.”
Anthony Rapp - Mark Cohen

“- Bruce: I hope you realize you've just committed assault.
- Henry Desalvo: I know. There was a time when you actually had to hit somebody.”

Michael McShane - Bruce
Dennis Farina - Henry Desalvo

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present becomes the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!”
Joanne Woodward - Amanda Wingfield

“Knowing where you're from, that's half of knowing who you are.”

Garrett Hedlund - Hook

“I think all of us want to feel something that we've forgotten or turned our backs on because maybe we didn't realize how much we were leaving behind. We need to remember what used to be good. If we don't, we won't recognize it even if it hits us between the eyes.”
Jennifer Garner - Jenna Rink

“- Terence Mann: You're from the sixties.
- Ray Kinsella: Well, yeah, actually...
- Terence Mann: [spraying at Ray Kinsella with a insecticide sprayer] Out! Back to the sixties! Back! There's no place for you here in the future! Get back while you still can!”
Kevin Costner - Terence Mann
James Earl Jones - Ray Kinsella

“A society uninterested and unwilling to learn from the past is doomed. We must never forget our history.”

Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar Hoover

“- Mitch Brockden: I'm not that kid anymore. Riverdale, It's... It was another life.
- Jimmy Logan: Well, lucky you. I only got the one.”
Dominic Cooper - Mitch Brockden
Ryan Robbins - Jimmy Logan

“- Max: I'm too nostalgic. I'll admit it.
- Skippy: We graduated four months ago. What can you possibly be nostalgic for?”

Chris Eigeman - Max
Jason Wiles - Skippy

“Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.”
Stephen Campbell Moore - Tom Irwing

“Which way do you want to go: forwards or backwards?”
Raffey Cassidy - Athena

“I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.”
Cary Elwes

“To live is to forget and to fear... forget the past and fear the future.”
João Costa Menezes