Long Ago Quotes

Long Ago Quote of the day

I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country.

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I long ago observed that the real beauty of the sound comes from the generosity of the heart.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!

The stupid don't even understand something that happened long ago, the wise understand it before it develops.

I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

I can't understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he doesn't seek the limelight like some of the other 'stars'.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.

We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment, but the engagement of our customers.

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!