Long ago Quotes · Page 3

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

— John D. Rockefeller

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country.

— Louis Riel

I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.

— Gene Wilder

“You see, long ago I built a wall, a defense mechanism as I recall.”

— Adiela Akoo

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Donal Henahan

God is love, the human being is all love, only the human has forgotten it long ago.

— Irina Tweedie

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

— Annie Dillard

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago…

— Richard M. Nixon

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we…

— Robert Breault

If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

— Carla Gordon

“A fortune teller long ago warned him he would die in Egypt, and she walks like an Egyptian.”

— Mark Leidner

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Anonymous

“«Zaki never grew tired of looking at the whiteness of Roar’s hair. It was as if the moon and the stars had…

— Margrét Helgadóttir

Long ago I decided that this program has nothing to do, the success of the program depends nothing at all on who…

— Rush Limbaugh

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion…

— Lillian Hellman

“I learned long ago that conservation has no victories, that one must retain connections and remain involved with animals and places that…

— George Schaller

“The darkness agrees with me. It asks me to release it, as loud as a roar and as quiet as a whisper.…

— Justina Ireland

“A writer’s brush is a warrior’s bow, the letters it shapes are arrows that must hit the mark on the page. The…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty…

— Miranda July

Eventually, I believe, everything evens out. Long ago an asteroid hit our planet and killed our dinosaurs. But in the future, maybe…

— Jack Handey

“Your eyes say I lie when I call you my woman. This is not good. It is our bargain, eh?” He plucked…

— Catherine Anderson

“I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me…

— Jack Kerouac

“The late American golfing coach and writer, Harvey Penick, held that any who played golf was his friend – in the politer…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

“Not long ago, I learned that if I let other people tell me how God was supposed to work in my life…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Since Husk’s downfall, Brother Fir had quietly and sensibly taken control of the situation. He had told the islanders of the long…

— Margaret McAllister

“I had traveled far, had circled the planet and studied my Torah, and at the very end of my search I was…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“These tales, without exception, express the truth that justice triumphs in the end. They all contain the idea that it is worth…

— Gyula Illyes

“When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't…

— Donna Tartt

People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago.

— Jennifer James

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.”

— Brodi Ashton

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

— Phylicia Rashad

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

— Charles M. Schulz

“I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...”

— C.J. Heck

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

— Elizabeth Strout