Long Time Ago Quotes - Page 6

• She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Long, House, Cozy

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2003). “Little House in the Big Woods”, HarperCollins

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• I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspiring, Soccer, Long

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• I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Taken, Play

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• You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Thinking, Clouds

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• He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Long, Laughing, Finding Yourself

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, People, Monsters

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• It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

  Kate Atkinson

  Yesterday, Long, Long Time

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.546, Random House

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• I'll explain it to you. To me it's more than a game." She touches her chest and says, "When you love something as much as I love football, you just feel it inside. Did you ever love doing something so bad that it consumed you?" "A long time ago." "That's what football is to me. It's my passion, my life… my escape. When I play, I forget everything that sucks in my life. And when we win…" She looks down like she's embarrassed to admit what she's about to reveal. "I know this is going to sound stupid, but when we win I think miracles can happen.

  Simone Elkeles

  Football, Stupid, Passion

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• I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Stupid, Thinking, Long

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• America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago

  Tommy Franks

  America, Hands, Long

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• I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it's going to be in 3D, then it's going to be smellivision, then it's going to be a ride in an amusement park, then they'll come to your house and perform it with puppets on your lawn ... it'll never end! I accepted that a long time ago.

  Mark Hamill

  Stars, War, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

  Dennis Miller

  Ice, Long, Done

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• Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.

  E. W. Howe

  Faith, Home, Long

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• I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

  Al Jarreau

  Long, Suffering, Want

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• Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

  Edgar Degas

  Long, Has Beens, Finished

  Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.222, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Benghazi happened a long time ago.

  Jay Carney

  Long, Benghazi, Happened

  "FBI says no connection between belated photo release and Benghazi media coverage", www.foxnews.com. May 2, 2013.

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• It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other.

  Pat Robertson

  Silly, Blessing, Long

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• I earned my professional credibility a long time ago in a male-dominated world. I just hope that as a woman, I bring in an extra dimension to the job. I bring in the sensitivity of being a woman and a mother, and that means I pay more attention to women, children, and the social needs of society.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

  John Ratzenberger

  Long, Hollywood, Lost

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• Women are always murdered and maimed, and they’re never given their rightful place as lead characters! And I think [creator Michael Hirst] has just written what should have been written a long time ago. There shouldn’t be anything that different about Vikings, but there is, because there’ve just been so many shows that have not stepped up to the plate and given female actors and female characters equal footing.

  Clive Standen

  Character, Thinking, Should Have

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• I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

  Ronny Cox

  Song, Funny Things, Long

  "Senator On the Rise". The GateWorld Interview, www.gateworld.net. September 15, 2003.

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• I wanna hear it, I wanna hear it from each and every one of you. I wanna hear it from the kids, the men, the women. I wanna hear it from every single person in this arena. I want you to stand up out of your seat, I want you to get up and do what you should have done a long time ago! I want you to admit that you were wrong! All of you! You all were wrong! Each and every single one of you! I made it!

  The Miz

  Kids, Men, Should Have

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• I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

  William Hurt

  Running, Long, Want

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

  Dana Reeve

  Long, Expecting, Fairs

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• If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

  Graham Nash

  Long, Discouraged, Critics

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