Years Ago Quotes
What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.
100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.
Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
I feel responsible for Johnny Ray's success. See many years ago I asked him to be on my show and he asked for a lot of money and I cried. And he stole that from me.
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.
Though I lost you years ago, I dreamed you were here. That dream gave me the inspirational feeling that I could make it one more day.
Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.
But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life
The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.
Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
Many years ago I chased a woman for almost two years, only to discover that her tastes were exactly like mine: we both were crazy about girls.
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.
I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris
Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota these days.
Thats the fun of going to a high school reunion: its seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.
Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!
Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.
We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong
Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.
Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.
God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.
Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.
I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.