Long Before Quotes

370 quotes by 319 authors

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear:… — William Hazlitt
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose… — George Will
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. — Eudora Welty
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. — John Howe
The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the… — Amy Sherman-Palladino
I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The… — David Stockman
The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes… — Trent Lott
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. — Robert D. Kaplan
Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It… — George Mikes
I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty. — Walter Inglis Anderson
Earth has provided a stable platform for the evolution of life over 4 billion years. But that lease is limited; we know for sure that… — Robert Shapiro
Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words. — Esther Hicks
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons. — Emile Durkheim
Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director. — Jay Baruchel
Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the… — Andy Andrews
I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor. — William Baldwin
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual. — Ricky Jay
I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of… — Edward Dmytryk
I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor. — Simon Callow

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