Reminded Of The Past Quotes

#1. The light of long ago is different from the light of today, and yet here, in this house, I'm reminded of the past at every turn.

Donna Tartt

#2. A movie playing on the TV screen in front of us. Some sort of bad Tom Cruise drama. I've never liked Tom Cruise. He always reminded me of someone's creepy cousin, who smiles too big before he touches your butt and whispers something gross in your ear with hot whiskey breath.

Erin McCarthy

#3. It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.

May Sarton

#4. Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

Blake Shelton

#5. Going slowly [ ... ] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

Paul Theroux

#6. When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, And I sentenced them to stay at home.

Diogenes Of Sinope

#7. He reminded me of the Viking god Thor, if Thor had been a reclusive federal game warden from Texas with excellent manners.

Penny Reid

#8. I don't think so," Clary said. "I think maybe she reminded me of you."
"Because I'm tiny, blonde, and look good in pigtails?

Cassandra Clare

#9. Reading was both a gift and a curse for me. Those books made me able to escape into a world I'd never experienced, but at the same time, they reminded me of all the things I'd been missing.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#10. As a member of Congress, I'm often reminded that in baseball, as in diplomacy, you have to know when to hit, when to run, and when to show grace.

Linda Sanchez

#11. To be a husband or wife, to be a parent, is inevitably to be aware of so many disappointing, exasperating things about your mate or child, but at the same time to see those people in depth, to see them with both eyes, and to be reminded of why you still love them.

Harold S. Kushner

#12. Time was short, as Pietr so frequently reminded me. Maybe we all needed to live fiercely.
And love courageously.

Shannon Delany

#13. Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!

Marianne Williamson

#14. She reminded me of a darkness, a darkness that I've missed.

Dimitri Zaik

#15. Why couldn't he say I reminded him of Ariel or something? Then again, Ariel was kind of stupid, giving up her voice for a dude.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. Gwen hates me," she reminded him.
"Don't be narcissistic. She hates everyone.

Shelly Laurenston

#17. Radheya has always been a rebel against caste and the social hierarchy,' her mother-in-law said, after a brief pause. 'He has constantly been cruelly reminded that as a sutaputra, he cannot aspire to more than he deserves, but he believes in his own worth.

Kavita Kane

#18. They were moments when she was suddenly reminded of her child, and perhaps also of the man she had loved; the breaking of links with the past is a painful thing.

Victor Hugo

#19. The service had reminded her of the meaning of Christmas and given her a sense of peace. It had also reminded her of the baby she carried and the hope that having a child brought into her life. Did the past really matter? Not if she didn't let it, she decided.

Brenda Novak

#20. I reminded myself that according to the consensus of opinion, a forty-year-old woman was in her sexual prime, while a man's was at the age of 19. Which meant Sebastian was already past his prime: although there was no evidence that anyone had told him that.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#21. Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes.

Suzanne Selfors

#22. Wilhelm's smile reminded Harry of his father's sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because that's where the things that made him smile were.

Jo Nesbo

#23. She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

Freya North

#24. If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay, then you're in deep trouble. Once you make a certain kind of peace with the past, then you should be completely oriented towards speculation about the future.

Kerry James Marshall

#25. My God, thank you for bringing her. It's like a trip into the past. Hannah looks just like her. My sweet little Terri." And Vanni was reminded, not for the first time, that the loss of a child is probably the most brutal loss of all, no matter that child's age. *

Robyn Carr

#26. The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing.

Abby Slovin

#27. His voice was flat. It reminded me of long afternoons in a dark saloon. The patrons drink in cheap liquor and recycled smoke. Each stares straight ahead into his respective past.

Michael Harvey

#28. We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.

Jon Porter

#29. I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

Alessandro Nivola

#30. Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.

Pete Dexter

#31. It reminded him of the truth - who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him.

Kayla Krantz

#32. It reminded me of innocence. And I wanted my first kiss to be just that. Innocent.

Jay Asher

#33. A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.

Rosemary Daniell

#34. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

Molly Ivins

#35. Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

Matthew Inman

#36. THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY
There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eaters lore:
one should stop the filling process
while one still has room for more.
And if someone at the table
had reminded me before -
Hallelujah! I'd be able
to absorb a little more.

Piet Hein

#37. Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

Markus Zusak

#38. It didn't matter what he said. The world is terrifying. It always is. But Cecil reminded her that it was ok to relax in a terrifying world.

Joseph Fink

#39. When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'

Jeff Greenfield

#40. Chubs is useful," I reminded her. "Please try not to kill him."
"Yeah, yeah we'll see. All I'm saying is, accidents happen.

Alexandra Bracken

#41. At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

Egon Schiele

#42. Reminded myself: the ones you don't like are a bonus. They can't fool you as easy as the ones you do.

Tana French

#43. The first time he saw her she reminded him a distant memory of falling from a height.

Vatsal Surti

#44. But he has guns, Rikki," she reminded herself aloud. "A dog wouldn't have a gun.

Christine Feehan

#45. Really, initially what I very quickly realized that I was loving about the show was, because it reminded me of when I was a kid and I would visit the sets where my dad was shooting with the other puppeteers.

Brian Henson

#46. Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

Orson Scott Card

#47. No one stops to think, though - that maybe there is a reason for the darkness. Maybe people have to be reminded of it - of its power. At night, we go to sleep against the darkness. And if we wake up before morning, a lot of times we're afraid. We need it all though - the darkness and the light.

Jacqueline Woodson

#48. A wise king keeps his own counsel, she reminded herself.

George R R Martin

#49. People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

Samuel Johnson

#50. Tom is dangerous, he reminded himself. He means you no good.

Bey Deckard

#51. I like jewellery because it's forever. Flowers die, chocolates get eaten and lingerie wears out in the wash. Plus, the girl is reminded of you every time she wears it. It's a wise move.

Amanda Bynes

#52. Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

Grant Morrison

#53. My wife, aside from being amazing in general, was really the catalyst in this, and I really owe a lot of the move to New York to her. She reminded me I've always wanted to do move to New York for theater and said, 'Let's stop talking about it and do it.'

Josh Cooke

#54. She was right, but at the same time she reminded me why girls make both great and terrible friends: They actually listen to your goals, even when you're too drunk to know what you're saying.

Jenny Lawson