Top 100 Long Long Time Ago Quotes
#1. - and there, on the table under her bedroom window, lies the voice that has set her dreaming again. Fragments of a life lived a long, long time ago. Across a hundred years the woman's voice speaks to her - so clearly that she cannot believe it is not possible to pick up her pen and answer.
Ahdaf Soueif
#2. I did a show a long, long time ago called 'Cooking Mexican'. It was a studio show as opposed to on-location like the one I do now. Before my first show, I was a cooking instructor, and I did a whole lot of classes for home cooks about Mexican food.
Rick Bayless
#3. Oregon almost never got too hot. An Oregon governor must have passed a law a long, long time ago that said Oregon had to always have moderate temperatures.
Colleen Houck
#4. I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.
Helena Rubinstein
#5. Elemental. Love is an element, Karou remembered from a long, long time ago, and she felt like she was floating.
Laini Taylor
#6. Hating all the cool kids takes an awful lots of energy and I'd given up on it a long long time ago.
John Green
#7. I like Daniel Craig. I worked with him on 'Sharpe,' one of the very early ones, maybe the second one we did - 'Sharpe's Revenge?' A long, long time ago, and he was good in that then.
Sean Bean
#8. I learned a long, long time ago, that I could accomplish things in this place we call reality and yet still spend most of my time in the better reality of my mind.
Kevin Walker
#9. Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.
Henry Hyde
#10. Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.
Neal A. Maxwell
#11. And to hear David talk about it, it's it all happened because a long, long time ago people tried to mess with human nature and ended up making it worse.
Veronica Roth
#12. A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.
Don McLean
#13. I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.
Jack Benny
#14. God Jake, I so much more than a lot like you."
"Mikayla, I passed that stage a long, long time ago.
Jay McLean
#15. Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile too much. Maybe I wear too much pink. But please remember I can rip your throat out if I need to. And also know that I am not a hooker. That was a long, long time ago.
Alan Ball
#16. When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?
Richard Meltzer
#17. The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.
Maureen Dowd
#18. I suspected you were tired of looking for things you should have found a long time ago. ~ Jared
Julie Leto
#19. Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
#20. Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
Hannah Storm
#21. Layla smiled through her tears, "If I'd known that all it would take to get us talking is a romantic getaway to a bombed-out part of Eastern Europe, I would have gotten Kendra to set it up a long time ago."
"Romantic, huh?" He smiled. "I like romantic.
Paige Tyler
#22. I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin
#23. A long time ago god chose you, today remember to choose Him.
Gerald Brooks
#24. cemetery had long ago ceased to be used; its dead had been dead for a very long time.
Muhammad Asad
#25. 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
#26. A long time ago I'd given up on religion, thinking it wasn't for me when so many were bigoted, narrow-minded, and cruel.
V.C. Andrews
#27. I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.
Lisa Marie Presley
#28. It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.
Evan Glodell
#29. Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?"
Dream: "There isn't one."
Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was.
Neil Gaiman
#30. Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into acting, then got bit by the acting bug myself.
Erik Estrada
#31. Once upon a long ago time I was a girl with hopeful halos in my eyes - not unlike you - not a typical beauty but beautiful nonetheless, as all young girls tend to be in their prime, even if they don't tend to know it.
Shannon Celebi
#32. Perfection is a club I resigned from a long time ago.
Robert Collins
#33. Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.
Sydney Strand
#34. The last light with any real warmth had been at home, long ago, in a place and a time that no longer existed, with people whose names he didn't say even inside his own mind.
Gregory Maguire
#35. And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
Ward Churchill
#36. Oma says, when we were put on earth a really long time ago, each person came with a plant to heal all the troubles that come later ... We've got Indian balsam, sage, wild rose. We've got juniper berries and honeysuckle. All of them do something different inside, heal things.
J.J. Brown
#37. I fell for you a long time ago, Cohen Cage. I've loved you my whole life.
Harper Sloan
#38. It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.
Margaret Thatcher
#39. 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
#40. If dreams were thunder and lightning was desire this old house would have burned down a long time ago
John Prine
#41. I love words," said Livvie. "I have always loved and respected words ... since a long time ago.
Susan Trott
#42. It is a long time ago. So many lives ago
I get them all confused, don't you?
Kim Stanley Robinson
#43. It's funny to think that Anson and I were here, in this same place, together all that time ago, and now here we are again. It makes me feel good, makes me feel that perhaps everything doesn't just disappear, that some things are circling back, taking the long way, but circling back towards me.
Helen Humphreys
#44. DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed ... deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.
Ambrose Bierce
#45. Several died the day the bomb was dropped. Some lived six months after the explosion but died anyway. They were all lost. It was so long ago, young man. To you it is a history story. To me it is my life.
Joseph G. Peterson
#46. One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.
Roy Barnes
#48. He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago.
Joe Hill
#49. I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.
Jean Reno
#50. I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
John Grisham
#51. I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.
Gedde Watanabe
#52. I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.
Julia Child
#53. I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#54. If there is a God, I guess he has nothing to say about it. If there is a God, he must have gotten tired of watching a long time ago.
Lauren Oliver
#55. We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.
Edward Hoagland
#56. When the sun died, I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time ago. God told me to come back and tell my people they must be good and love one another, and not fight, or steal, or lie. He gave me this dance to give to my people.
Wovoka
#57. I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.
Dana Reeve
#58. A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.
Tove Jansson
#59. Dude. Did you just sniff her hair?" Kent asks, with a look of absolute disgust on his face.
"I did." I smirk, uncaring. I traded in my man card a long time ago. "I love how my girl smells. Shoot me if it's a crime.
Siobhan Davis
#61. Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago.
Peter F. Hamilton
#62. I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago.
Wynonna Judd
#63. Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.
Marvin Gaye
#64. I want to be doing things today, not just flipping through crinkled and yellowed mental pictures of what happened a long time ago.
Bob Goff
#65. You know, Annie, a long time ago an old man told me beauty doesn't mean much in a woman. It disappears with age. But he said some women have something better. They have a special glow that lasts all their life and just gets richer. You're like that. You really shine.
Ellen O'Connell
#66. I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'
Elmore Leonard
#68. And he ate up all her vision, as he had done the first day she saw him so long ago.
Lawren Leo
#69. I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.
Luke Evans
#70. One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.
Tove Jansson
#71. Honestly?" Logan shrugged. "I didn't know it could kill me. If I'd ever heard that, I forgot it a long time ago. But I knew it was dangerous."
"Then why take the risk?" Stone asked.
Logan turned his head to look at me. "Because she was worth it.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#72. But you're not that smart, I mean, your species is responsible for Windows Vista." "Vist- that was a long time ago!" "It's still an insult to computers across the galaxy.
Craig Alanson
#73. A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.
Frederick Lenz
#74. When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.
Amy Clampitt
#75. This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I ... that was on inside of me and not play games ...
Janis Joplin
#76. It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#77. Small said, "But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?"
... Large (replied) "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
#78. You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading because the point is if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones. It's kind of all or nothing.
Steven Soderbergh
#79. We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since.
Lisa Kleypas
#80. She thought ray i'll never see ray again there was a time she looked into those green eyes and said i love you so long ago he'll never know i still do
Lois Duncan
#81. I believed in clemency, once," Captain Noble said, at last, "A long time ago, before I learned that the world is a hard place, and those who cannot bear what befalls them, no matter how ill, will be crushed in favor of those who will. There is no clemency, Ellis, only survival.
G.L. Tysk
#82. In typical sailing races a long time ago, you'd come in and go out, and the first thing you'd do is probably have a cold beer. The first thing we do now is have a protein shake and our recovery drink.
James Spithill
#83. When did you last see her?" "Twenty-four hours ago." Kenny's pretend frown barely hid the beginning of a sarcastic grin. "That's a really long time." Jett knew
J.C. Reed
#84. You're lost, broken, and completely fucked up. You're not like me, but you want to be. The difference between us is that I still have hope and you lost yours a long time ago.
H.M. Ward
#85. All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
Edward Snowden
#86. Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago
Tom Baker
#87. I've been trying to get you to say I'm wonderful from the first time you plowed into me. If I'd known that all it would take was handing you a toothbrush, I would have done that a long time ago. My loss.
J. Lynn
#88. The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.
Rush Limbaugh
#89. You made me face something I should have faced a long time ago. I'm grateful. And I should have never asked you to leave. You don't ask someone you to love to walk out of your life
Jaci Burton
#90. You have to see your own face one day. A long time ago it unnerved me, but now it's kind of cute.
Karen Swart
#92. I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.
Maya Angelou
#93. Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider ... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.
Jane Mersky Leder
#94. A long time ago," said Michael, "I decided never to fall in love again. I have made of desire an anonymous activity." "But not to feel ... not to love ... is like dying within life, Michael.
Anais Nin
#95. I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.
Anne Hathaway
#96. If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
Eddie Vedder
#97. I learned a long time ago that life is vastly more interesting when you say yes to it." He
Monique Martin
#98. I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.
Deborah Harkness
#99. The evidence that you truly repented long ago when you said you did is because you're still repenting now and even to a greater degree. The evidence that you believed a long time ago is that you're still believing now and ever more believing in greater and greater degrees.
Paul Washer
#100. Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
Anne Fortier
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