Quotes About Romanticizing The Past

#1. "Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

Paul Kingsnorth

#2. I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.

Taya Kyle

#3. If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you. It does it often enough anyway even when you don't give it opportunities.

Robert M. Pirsig

#4. I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

Cornel West

#5. There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

Dani Shapiro

#6. I don't know if I am romanticizing, mythologizing, or being nostalgic. I assume all three. That seems to be how the brain breaks things down after a certain age. I

Marc Maron

#7. The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

Karen Russell

#8. I like romanticizing romance.

Ansel Elgort

#9. In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

Madison Smartt Bell

#10. I'm not a good guy, Jacey. I'm not the person that you'd like to believe. Please know that. Don't make the mistake of romanticizing me.

Courtney Cole

#11. Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

Jaron Lanier

#12. There is no point in romanticizing other religions that reject the deity and saving work of Christ. They do not know God. And those who follow them tragically waste their lives.

John Piper

#13. Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Susan Sontag

#14. Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

Miyamoto Musashi

#15. I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn't choose.

Sue Monk Kidd

#16. I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

Lykke Li

#17. What I wanted to say is that abuse has no bias. It's not gender specific; it's just never okay.

Jennifer Lopez

#18. I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.

Jaron Lanier

#19. tour shaking their heads. "Are they romanticizing these communities?

Paul Kersey

#20. I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.

Tana French

#21. To paraphrase Titus 3:3, we live as slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in chaos and envy, hassled by others and hassling one another. We are all very busy, but not with what matters

Kevin DeYoung

#22. Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Ernest Hemingway,

#23. The thing about dead people ... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is ... complicated, I guess.

John Green

#24. Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Anne Roiphe

#25. Brian's death was the clearest and most horrifying example of my terrific obsession with the unattainable. Alive, his biggest flaw was most likely that he liked me. Dead, his perfections were clearer.

Marina Keegan

#26. Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

George Eliot

#27. America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.

Eric Braeden

#28. I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

Michael Eric Dyson

#29. 'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's in 'Gone With the Wind,' and modern audiences have to wrestle with that beloved movie's romanticizing of racism.

Richard Corliss

#30. The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on the wisdom of redistributing wealth at the point of a gun.

Steven Pinker

#31. There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

Daphne Guinness

#32. Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

Larry Wall

#33. I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

Doris Lessing

#34. We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

John Green

#35. David Gulden captures animals in all their wonder and intrigue, without glorifying or romanticizing them. He knows Kenya's wildlife intimately, and it shows in the depth of his images. He has an artist's eye, which delivers beauty and transport in every picture.

Susan Minot

#36. I so don't want to be attracted to him, and the fact that I am surprises me. Sometimes when I get home, I convince myself that I'm just romanticizing anyone who's actually spoken to me, but then I see him the next day and my heart starts beating fast and I can't really kid myself.

Melina Marchetta

#37. I didn't go to Hebrew school.

Amy Heckerling