Years Ago Quotes

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.

I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.

I'm friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.

We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

I would probably advise myself 10 years ago not to take life too seriously and to just try to be happy.

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

I think I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll - I get back pain!

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

My career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me.

It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.

We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing in Guapo.

I worked with Sidney Lumet years ago, and we had a long rehearsal process, and he would tape out the entire set on the stage, so I stole that from him.

I was very, very pro-women many years ago.

Social media is something women didn't have 10 years ago, and that's a big aspect in feminism today. I don't have to be filtered by anyone. I choose.

A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos

I absolutely love being back in Nebraska and I love that my wife is able to experience a lot of the great things that made me love this place years ago. The lifestyle, the people.

I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.

Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.

My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together.

I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.

The only single guy driving a minivan is a guy whose mother bought the van 16 years ago...

I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

I love you. I don't know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart's lost to you, and I wouldn't have it another way. You're what I want, all there is of you.

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

There is an entire generation who was too young to read 'The Purpose Driven Life' 10 years ago but are now asking the critical question, 'What on earth am I here for?'

Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.

Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this country 50 years ago.

Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.