Going Back To The Past Quotes

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear — Sydney Banks

If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time — Bill Belichick

White had learned that going back in time was a way of fixing things; uncovering past traumas, revisiting them and defusing their power. — Helen Macdonald

The past can't touch you or call you back; you are going far away from it with gratitude and wisdom to learn from the future. — Debasish Mridha

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family ... — Frank McCourt

You've got to be kidding me." I lean back to search his face. "You're going to worry about conventions when we're past the end of the world? — Stephenie Meyer

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it. — Dana Reinhardt

Composers are always going back to the past. — Anne Dudley

the past is a liar
full of promises it can't keep
but like a foolish first love
you keep going back to it — Jennifer Alex Oliveira

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play. — Lev Grossman

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. — Edna Ferber

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama. — Robert Towne

Forget the past, it's gone, but glance back occasionally to remind yourself where you came from and where you are going. — Chloe Thurlow

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class! — Nancy Pelosi

Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back... — Leonardo Donofrio

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works — Munia Khan

It doesn't matter where we are going, or what the future brings and what people might do to us, the past always comes back one way or another. — Isabella Kruger

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at. — Nancy Werlin

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back. — Dan Quayle