Long Ago Quotes - Page 6

• It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.

  Louis Bromfield

  Book, August, Sea

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• That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

  Ilka Chase

  Children, Real, Europe

  Ilka Chase (1967). “Fresh from the Laundry”

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• I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

  Miriam Makeba

  Singing, Singers, Politician

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• My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?

  Rosalynn Carter

  Disappointment, Years, White

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• Departed suns their trails of splendor drew
  Across departed summers: whispers came
  From voices, long ago resolved again
  Into the primeval Silence, and we twain,
  Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same,
  As in a spectral mirror wandered there.

  Bayard Taylor

  Summer, Mirrors, Self

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• The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Essence, Design

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.17

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• Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Lying, Mean, Rewards

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Long, Today, Falsehood

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

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• Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

  Kay Boyle

  Country, Memories, Spring

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• Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Two, Oneness, Goal

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• Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Son, Player, Greatness

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• Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier one apart; love is the reason why you choose a life with someone, and you don't turn back although your heart cries sometimes and your children see you cry and you wish out loud that things were easier. Love is getting up each day and fighting the same fight only to sleep that night in the same bed beside the same person because long ago, when you were younger and you did not see so clearly, you had chosen them.

  Kao Kalia Yang

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

  Charles Dickens

  Silly, Character, Blow

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.142, Kartindo.com

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• My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

  Clarence Darrow

  Bylaws, Moral, Constitution

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• Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."

  Edward Smith

  Texas, Useless, Texan

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• Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Laughter, Winter, Tragedy

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• I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Eras, Be A Man

  "Rush Limbaugh denies claims he told caller not to watch Fox News". "The Five", Fox News Show, www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Everything is possible for the writer. There isn’t anything anyone can tell you that you can’t do, and there is no such thing as "getting away with" anything. There’s no one to tell you what you can or can’t do. You’re only limited by the fences you allow yourself to build around yourself, for whatever reason, including fidelity to some idea about literature someone else imposed upon you some time long ago or five minutes ago.

  Kyle Minor

  Ideas, Literature, Reason

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• My abortion was so long ago I didn't think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn't realized I didn't forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.

  Barbara

  Thinking, Abortion, Forgiving

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• I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.

  Nur Muhammad Taraki

  Hands, Tendencies, Dangerous

  "Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89" by Rodric Braithwaite, (p. 65), 2010.

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• I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, People, Way

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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• Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.

  Lana Del Rey

  Dark, Dancing, Soul

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• Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

  Adam Hochschild

  Mother, Talking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.

  Chuck Pfarrer

  People, Politician, Disappointed

  Chuck Pfarrer (2011). “SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden”, p.238, Macmillan

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• When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Museums, Race

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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