Years Ago Quotes

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

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.

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

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 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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

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.

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.

Nefertiti, the most beautiful calico in the world, chose me as her own six short years ago.

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.

A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.

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

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few 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?

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

I was about 18 six years ago. I'm 28 now.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.

When I became vegan 5 years ago, it was truly eye opening. I think it's all about perspective, really.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication