Long Time Ago Quotes

• A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

  Don McLean

  Rock And Roll, Long, Use

  Song: Miss American Pie, Album: American Pie

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Umpires, Long

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", 1996.

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• The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Heart, Long, Alabama

  "Fictional character: Melanie Carmichael". "Sweet Home Alabama", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

  Al Lewis

  Struggle, Long, Victory

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• I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

  Etta James

  Should Have, Long, Gone

  "Etta James' New Lease Of Life", www.sfgate.com. August 22, 2003.

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• I learned a long time ago that the show you're going to see isn't the one you have in your head. As soon as you understand that, you're going to enjoy it a lot more.

  Jeff Daniels

  Long, Enjoy, Shows

  "Aaron Sorkin, Alan Poul, and Jeff Daniels Talk THE NEWSROOM Season 2, Responding to Critics, and More at PaleyFest". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. March 4, 2013.

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• I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic detachment that I find valuable. I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise, for the sake of cell phones and Jet Skis.

  George Carlin

  Country, Adventure, Thinking

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• Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

  Anne Fortier

  Men, Long, Events

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine.

  Angie Harmon

  Baby, Long, Different

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• I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

  Bette Midler

  Long, Watches, Made

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• Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies for you see, love like starlight never dies

  Debi Gliori

  Stars, Sky, Long

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• It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “The American Scholar”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• A long time ago god chose you, today remember to choose Him.

  Gerald Brooks

  Long, Today, Remember

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• Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit I'd like parkour to keep. You have to make the difference between what is useful and what is not in emergency situations. Then you'll know what is parkour and what is not. So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.

  David Belle

  Art, Differences, Goal

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• A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Tree, Shade

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• There was an old, crazy dude who used to live a long time ago. His name was Lord Buckley. And he said, a long time ago, he said, 'People--they'r e kinda like flowers, and it's been a privilege walking in your garden.' My love goes with you.

  Robin Williams

  Crazy, Flower, Garden

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• I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.

  Michael Ironside

  Real, Long, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I lost my dad back in the fall, and my dad said something to me a long time ago. He said, 'Are you happy with who you are now?' because we just had a real serious talk. And I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Then you can't regret what got you to where you are. So whatever you do and whatever mistakes you make, learn from them and grow. And just always treat people with kindness,' which I've tried to do.

  Dennis Haskins

  Dad, Kindness, Regret

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• I developed a long time ago some habits. One of them is what I call "divert daily, withdraw weekly, and abandon annually." Divert daily is everyday you do something that's not work-related. You do something that relaxes you. Then you withdraw weekly. The Bible says every seven days you take a day off. And then abandon annually means you just go out and forget it all.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Long, Everyday

  "Rick & Kay Warren Extended Interview". Interview with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. September 01, 2006.

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• Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped.

  Laura Dave

  Filled In, Long, Details

  Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.56, Penguin

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• I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Long, Devil, Negative

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.119, Penguin

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• A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, School, Mean

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• If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

  Cheri Huber

  Long, Beautiful Life, Loathing

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• A long time ago, Trinity and I made a list of types of guys you should never date. We add to it every now and then. It includes things like never date a guy whose computer costs more than his car (you'll never get him to pay attention to you except over instant messages), never date a guy who has a pet lizard (he's probably into weird stuff in bed) and never under any circumstances go on a second date with a guy who says the word "married" on the first date (he'll turn out to be a mama's boy or a religious type)

  Adam Selzer

  Religious, Boys, Car

  Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.46, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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