#recent past

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#archaeology #aspect #get #historian #i

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#basic #day #decline #each #economic

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#catastrophes #destroyed #itself #past #presents

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural? ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#cultural #economic #figure #heard #national

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#i #nothing #past #recent #recent past

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. ↗

— George Carlin

#immediate #immediate future #only #past #present