Recent Past Quotes

Recent Past Quote of the day

I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left?

Every day grows more amnesiac about its recent past.

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.

I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the way he fits into society.