Long Ago Quotes
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.
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.
...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.
If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.
Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world
I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642
I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.
Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.
We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago.
Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.
I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.
I'm not the same as I was long ago, I've learned some new things and I hope that it shows.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."
Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.
The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.
It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.
Today is what's thought about long ago. Now today we have to project, think, experiment, prototype the future.
Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.
If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.
I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.
They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.
Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.
We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.
I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.
Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.
