Past Quotes

Any world that can produce the Taj Mahal, William Shakespeare, and striped toothpaste can't be all bad [we agree on two out of three]
- said by MacNamara in One Two Three

Boris, I know that we were sweethearts in the past but things have moved on now...
- said by Ana in Aurora

Everything is illuminated in the light of the past. [very profound statement there Alex!]
- said by Alex in Everything Is Illuminated

I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not.
- said by Paul Edgecomb in Green Mile

I just walked past and could not do anything but take him home to look after him, little did I realise the significance of the act.
- said by Jeanne Holman in Three Wishes

I'll bet you were wondering what I've been doing up there in Washington DC these past eighteen years [sorry but no, not really]
- said by Phogbound in Li'l Abner

I'm the owner of the pants you've been trying to get into for the past four years.
- said by Robin in Once Bitten

If you hang onto the past you die a little each day. [very profound]
- said by Daniel in Cape Fear

It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In LA, nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.
- said by Graham in Crash

No matter what happens to you or whoever or whatever you become, there is one thing that you can never escape - and that is your past
- said by Johnny Handsome in Johnny Handsome

People starve, but we must not grow food. We must honour the comrade children, whose minds are not corrupted by the past [sounds like the sort of policy a politician might come up with!]
- said by Dith Pran in Killing Fields

Somebody wants to told me that the great kings of the past are watching over us.
- said by Old Simba in The Lion King

Sometimes when you look back to the past you do realise that things were not always actually as good as you think they were after the event
- said by Ira Skitch in Mr Skitch

Taiwan is a country that has a chequered past and present
- said by Chung in Good Men Good Women

The problem in the past has been the man turning us against one another.
- said by Cyrus in Warriors

There is no such thing as history, only an edited version of past events
- said by Alicia in La Historia Oficial

Times gone by are always times past, but we can make them present again in our minds.
- said by Selina in Stormy Weather

When I cruise past and look at all the road kill on the side of the road, I rev up even faster baby!
- said by Blue in Road Kill

When you climb aboard you can forget all about your past life, because where you are going you just won't need it
- said by Narrator in Ferry To Hong Kong

When you hear a story you never get the real story only edited accounts of the past, flavoured with individual or national bias, the whole story is forever hidden
- said by Alice in Official Story