Long Ago Quotes

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

O how long ago the earth would have been destroyed, if Mary had not interposed!

I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Where are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago. ("The Key-Note")

I have long ago accepted that I am a little crazy and a little weird. It wasn't that exciting a revelation though. Turns out everyone is.

Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.

Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle.

Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!

Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.

If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrative careers long ago.

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.

Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?

I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

Long ago I left heroics to the heroes