Long Ago Quotes

Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don't disappoint him.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

Jesus loves me! This I know As He loved so long ago Taking children on His knee Saying, Let them come to Me.

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name.

Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

I needed to recognize those secrets I was keeping from myself- secrets I had buried long ago. I needed Post Secret just as much as the other people who were mailing me their secrets.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

I can give you honesty, monogamy, and more passion than you can stand, but not love. That emotion died in me long ago, as I suspect you already know.

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago.

I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.

Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I’d found out long ago that I couldn’t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.

Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.

The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.