Long Ago Quotes

• 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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• Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Buffets, Taught

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 2008.

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• I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Looks

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.467, Wordsworth Editions

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• The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Life Lesson, Acceptance

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

  Neil Peart

  Future, Past, Lessons

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• Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

  Frontinus

  Follow Your Dreams, Development, Limits

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• It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

  Annie Dillard

  Silly, Writing, Age

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• Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Kissing, Battle, Poop

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• I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

  Joseph Barbera

  Light, Facts, Accepting

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Powerful, Past, Thinking

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

  John Dos Passos

  Romantic, Successful, People

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• I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

  Tim Robbins

  Night, Eight, Hours

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• President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Mistake, People

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays - beyond their meaning - a factor in our economy.

  Bob Schieffer

  Christmas, Thanksgiving, Football

  "Schieffer: More Than Just a Game" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

  Carl Sandburg

  Old Buildings, Littles, Happens

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.3, University of Illinois Press

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• If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

  George Santayana

  Pain, Should, Saved

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.136, MIT Press

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• Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Movie, Writing, Scripts

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• Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

  Grover Cleveland

  Women, Civilization, Work Out

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• I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

  Bryan Cranston

  Focus, Attention, Pay

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• The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

  Havelock Ellis

  Stars, Moon, Hands

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• If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Funny Love, Wise

  "The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas".

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• I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

  Whitney Houston

  Believe, Shadow, Rehabilitation

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• I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

  Jesse Jackson

  Water, Sides, Bread

  1984 Addressing black voters, NewYork, 30 Jan.

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• One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Play, Insanity

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Nov 20, 2013

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• I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dirty, Fighting, Naughty

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