Ago Quotes

The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light.

In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago.

I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.

I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.

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.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

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

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.

I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

I think it's crazy that Bill Cosby has a mugshot for alleged assaults 11 years ago with no physical evidence or proof besides these womens accounts of what he did to them an entire decade later.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated

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.

Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago.

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?

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.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

[...] evidence is now coming out showing that Egypt was colonized by Western people over 15,000 years ago.

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years 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 might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

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.

A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

20 years ago, I was pushed and mentored and given challenging assignments and then supported. That allowed me to have the career path I've had.

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. (on soccer in the United States)

Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

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.

If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

I always took pictures, but about five or six years ago, I started taking more behind the scenes at SNL, and now I have some 60,000 photos sitting on my laptop.

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel?

Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.