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570 Long Ago quotes by 471 unique authors

You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say,… — William Faulkner
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a… — Carl Sagan
Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long… — Carl Jung
O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? — James Weldon Johnson
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of… — George Schaller
Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy. — Lance Armstrong
It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods. — Geraldine Ferraro
Jessica walked away from Aaron and Ken, flashing them both a big smile. They were both very attractive - she had dated each of them… — Francine Pascal
I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight… — Willie Morris
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of… — Isaac Asimov
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am… — Jeremy Paxman
Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he… — Karl Popper
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development. — Frontinus
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and… — Pope Gregory XVI
If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago. — George H. Morris
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. — Henry David Thoreau
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.… — Albert Einstein
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Unknown Author
We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may… — John F. Kennedy
They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great… — George Washington
Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned… — Robert Breault

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