Long Ago Quotes - Page 9

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

Robert Bloch

People, Magic, Labels

Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.88, The Overlook Press

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But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I remember everything that happened that day becasue it has happened many times in my life. The same innocence, trust, and restlessness; the wonder, fear, and lonliness. How I lost myself. I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found.

Amy Tan

Moving, Moon, Remembers Everything

Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.83, Penguin

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Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

Peter Weiss

Hero, Long, Left

Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.68, A&C Black

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I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.

Amy Tan

Dog, Strong, Eye

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She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.

William Saroyan

Littles, Cry, Decided

William Saroyan, Leo Hamalian (1990). “Madness in the Family”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.

Sarah Dessen

Goodbye, Blessed, Farewell

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.10, Penguin

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You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Jon Stewart

People, Political, Democracy

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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

Arthur C. Clarke

Would Be, Dull, Utopia

Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.73, RosettaBooks

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When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like.

Jodi Picoult

Heart, Eye, Men

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

Pearl S. Buck

Essentials, May, Causes

Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.67, Open Road Media

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What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

Marguerite Duras

Voice, Forever, Stories

Marguerite Duras, Duras (1993). “Summer Rain”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)

Robin McKinley

Animal, Intelligent, Mastery

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My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)

Jodi Picoult

Teacher, Believe, Thinking

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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.

Harper Lee

Uncles, Son, Jimmy

Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

Sharon Kay Penman

Summer, Sunset, Lifetime

Sharon Kay Penman (2010). “When Christ and His Saints Slept”, p.225, Macmillan

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So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it fled, almost gay it seemed to be casting off all doubt and care and fear. And even as it winged away into forgetfulness it heard voices, and they seemed to be crying in some forgotten world far above: 'The eagles are coming! The eagles are coming!' For one moment more Pippin's thought hovered. "Bilbo! But no! That came in his tale, long long ago. This is my tale, and it ended now. Good-bye!' And his thought fled far away and his eyes saw no more.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Eye, Gay, Eagles

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As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Kindness, Giving, Stories

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How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves

Wendell Berry

Soulmate, Two, Rivers

Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.315, Counterpoint Press

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...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

Louis Bromfield

Loneliness, Rose, Humanity

Louis Bromfield (1957). “The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .”

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dont undress my love you might find a mannequin dont undress the mannequin you might find love. shes long ago forgotten me. hes trying on a new hat and looks more the coquette then ever. she is a child and a mannequin and death. i can't hate that. she didnt do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.

Charles Bukowski

Children, Hate, Love You

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We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?

Michael Jackson

Whales, Missing, Looks

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Dodge," Alyss said, putting a hand to the parrallel scars on his cheek, that brand left so long ago by The Cat. She pressed her lips against each of them--four delicate kisses. When she pulled away, he was smiling.

Frank Beddor

Cat, Kissing, Hands

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Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

Colum McCann

Heart, Simple, Twists

Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

Louis Armstrong

Music, Memories, Night

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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

Ann Brashares

Mother, Jeans, Joy

Ann Brashares (2003). “The Second Summer of the Sisterhood”, p.373, Delacorte Press

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