Long Ago Quotes - Page 2

• O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

  James Weldon Johnson

  Music, Fire, Black

  "O Black and Unknown Bards" l. 1 (1917)

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• 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 ideas, of all human endeavors.

  George Schaller

  Death, Ideas, Justice

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• 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

  Old Wounds, Energy, Use

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.17, Random House

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• 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 unbridled desire of novelty, truth is not sought where it truly resides, and, with a disregard for the holy and apostolic traditions, other vain, futile, uncertain doctrines, not approved by the Church are accepted as true, on which very vain men mistakenly think that truth itself is supported and sustained.

  Pope Gregory XVI

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

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• If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago.

  George H. Morris

  Horse, Light, Blue

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• If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Autumn, July

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Crush, Struggle, Class

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• You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

  Frederik Pohl

  Reason, Profession, Ads

  Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth (1984). “Venus, Inc”

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• People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Writing, People, Letters

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• I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot of it because he was a cop investigating this crime. But it is almost hard to remember, even though it wasn't that long ago. We shot it so fast. We literally shot that whole episode in one day.

  Eric McCormack

  Character, Circles, One Day

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Giving Up, Rights, People

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.

  Kate Bush

  Two, People, Saws

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Long ago I decided that this program has nothing to do, the success of the program depends nothing at all on who wins or loses elections. "Are you abandoning [Donald] Trump?" No, no, no, no, don't misunderstand, I'm just explaining. I should have told you. I get emails constantly from people asking me when am I going to Trump Tower. I'm not going to Trump Tower.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Should Have, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Brave, Vision

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• Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"

  Max Lucado

  Book, Our World, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The summit is the mere formality, the ceremonial demonstration of what was agreed to long ago, weeks, months before the summit.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Months, Week, Demonstration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Men, Fables

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• The US and Canada are now increasingly isolated in the hemisphere, and sooner or later, I think we're going to find that the US and Canada are simply excluded from hemispheric affairs. That's a sharp reversal of what was the case not long ago.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Hemisphere, Canada

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press

  Albert Einstein

  War, Believe, School

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• 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 have been made ... We have failed not for lack of hypotheses which equate man with the rest of the universe, but for lack of a hypothesis (short of animism) which provides for the peculiar divergence of man ... Let me now state my belief that the peculiar factor in man which forbids our explaining his actions upon the ordinary plane of biology is a highly specialized and unstable biological complex, and that this factor is none other than language.

  Leonard Bloomfield

  Men, Peculiar, Ordinary

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• Long ago, when I was a very young girl, I said that I wanted to go everywhere, see everything, taste everything. hear everything, touch everything, try everything before I died. There isn't anything you can name that a woman can do that I haven't done. I don't intend to stand by and be a spectator. I want to be right in there in the midst of it, right up to my nose - totally involved in the community, in the world, in the stream of history, in the human image.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Girl, Names, Community

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• The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.

  George Weigel

  Religious, Order, Catholic

  Source: eppc.org

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• The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

  Noam Chomsky

  Communication, Technology, Possibility

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• It was not that long ago a bunch of researchers got on a boat and started chugging for the South Pole to find evidence of the melting glaciers and global warming, and they got stuck in the ice and it took three ice breakers and a helicopter to rescue them. Yet they still carry the day in the pop culture that global warming is happening.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ice, Melting, Glaciers

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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