Years Before Quotes

273 Years Before quotes by 246 unique authors

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it… — Richard Bach
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. — Harper Lee
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that… — Banksy
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities… — Victor Hugo
It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going… — Suzanne Collins
Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years… — Gay Hendricks
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the… — Terry Pratchett
God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted… — Heinrich Heine
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time… — Elwyn Brooks White
The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as… — Carl Sagan
It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds. — Toni Morrison
It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning… — Dennis Lehane
Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed… — Mark Twain
Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you… — Mary Doria Russell
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was… — Anne Michaels
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit. — Mark Twain
Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had… — Raymond E. Feist
Not half as much as I’d miss me if you killed me. (He blinked like a girl and leaned against Ash’s shoulder.) Please don’t hurt… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two… — Daniel Handler
About a hundred or so years before you were born, a Dark-Hunter made the mistake of falling in love with his Talpina. Unfortunately for the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down… — Taylor Swift

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