Alan Gerry Quotes

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Even after working at 'MarketWatch' and loving journalism and loving business news, I still wanted to be a lawyer because it was my plan.

You can always go back, to coaching. You can't go back to spending time with your family.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

The past was so past it hurt.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.

... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.

Memory is not what the heart desires.

I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever.

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things.

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

..I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

I don't even want to go back to '81.