Cynthia Nixon Quotes

You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

America is a conservative country with a small “c” - they want change, but they don’t want too much change too fast.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

We can never go back.

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

All human advances occur in the outlaw area.

There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

It's exciting to kind of move forward and take hold of the opportunity that "Twilight's" afforded us, but it's also kind of sad.

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.