Ago People Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you…
— Gary Gait
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Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can…
— Desmond Tutu
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A few months ago people were talking about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Now the only hope is keeping the world…
— Jeffrey Garten
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A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.
— Jacob M. Appel
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In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot,…
— Gary Shteyngart
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Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet.…
— Jenny Han
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer,…
— Ed Balls
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I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about…
— Judy Collins
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
— Lou Holtz
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My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you…
— Jodi Picoult
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With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without…
— Jared Diamond
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Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.
— Jack Kilby
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Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
— Harry Seidler
Who Wrote These Ago People Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Ago People Quotes as follows: