Years Before Quotes

273 Years Before quotes by 246 unique authors

Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for… — Fritz Kreisler
I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about… — Stacy Keibler
Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as a result of… — Chinua Achebe
In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as… — Charles Kimbrough
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been… — Peter York
It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh,… — Michael Tsarion
The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special… — Sherwood Anderson
I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within… — Jonathan Moyo
I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years.… — Karen Thompson Walker
Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so… — Edward Bach
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing… — Alberto Manguel
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the… — Ulysses S. Grant
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints… — Henry Louis Gates
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of… — Henry Louis Gates
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. — Dave Eggers
I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there… — Britt Ekland
My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up. — Katherine Heigl
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes… — Stephen Hawking
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had… — Khaled Hosseini
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. — William Ralph Inge
Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years… — Hugh Jackman
I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond. — Bob Kane
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's… — Ben Kingsley

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