The Past Is Another Country Quotes

#1. Yes, the past is another country, but once that we can visit and once there we can bring back the things we need.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. Oh, come on. What's that thing you say? The past is another country. You make out with different people there.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#3. Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.

Sara Sheridan

#4. It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

Geraldine Brooks

#5. Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

Martin Amis

#6. They say there are something like 12 million illegal immigrants in the country right now, with another half a million coming every year. Remember in the last election when the Democrats claimed there was two Americas? Turns out one of them was Mexico.

Jay Leno

#7. Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.

Ron Wyden

#8. When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.

May Sarton

#9. I observed a man sourcing candle wax from South America and selling it to Japan. I thought: 'That's unbelievable. Talking on the phone in his office, that man made money moving candle wax from one country to another.' It really interested me.

Ivan Glasenberg

#10. It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather not garner any of those things and speak honestly about the things that I see my people endure in this country and all over the world.

Christian Scott

#11. Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions - political, economic,
psychological, military - that aims at the overthrow of the established
authority in a country and its replacement by another regime.

Roger Trinquier

#12. My body has become
another country
and I feel like an unemployed
illegal alien
how will I survive
where I do not belong
I belong with you

Patrick Califia-Rice

#13. A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.

Gilbert Highet

#14. Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#15. The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.

Cassandra Clare

#16. Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

Ambrose Bierce

#17. I don't even think of going to Europe as going to another country now.

Michael Kors

#18. If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.

Fran Lebowitz

#19. Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

Andrew Denton