Long Ago Quotes

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

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.

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

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.

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt.' I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.'

I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

[The dancing] was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it was weird picking it back up.

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.

Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.

I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?