Top 144 Prior Quotes

My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months.
Heber J. Grant
Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative – I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.
Carolyn Mackler
Back in the day, prior to rock and roll, music halls, concert venues were segregated if they allowed black people in at all. You know, there were ropes that went around the sitting sections with signs hanging that would say, ‘Sitting for white patrons only,’ or ‘Colored sitting only.’
Daryl Davis
Prior to 2015, I had kind of approached every year like, ‘Let’s hope for the best.’ I always made these year-end videos with 100 things I did, and it would kind of build itself up throughout the year. When this year started, it was like I knew the 100 things before I even got to do them.
Tyler Oakley
Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone’s motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone’s Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.
Gary Ackerman
The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.
David Kay
I studied directing prior to acting and I’ve done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.
Matthew Gray Gubler
I believe it’s not 100 percent right to kneel during the national anthem, because you have to respect what many have done for this nation. I think kneeling prior to the anthem, like the Dallas Cowboys have done, is right.
Kevin-Prince Boateng
Prior to being in ‘Carousel,’ I had only seen the movie. So, when I read the script, I felt like it was a lot deeper than the movie portrayed it to be.
Joshua Henry
Our generation, I think, has a demand for authenticity that exceeds any prior generation.
Matt Gaetz
There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I’ll still be paying for my prior use.
Layne Staley
I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are – and not just financially – prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
Laura Wasser
I can’t get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!
David Prowse
The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in ‘The Twilight Zone’.
Morgan Brittany
Prior to the 2014 General Election, the country was passing through a phase of uncertainty. After the elections, my government assumed charge and vowed to build a New India. A New India with no place for imperfect, corrupt and inertia ridden systems.
Ram Nath Kovind
Prior to doing a 'Bond' film, I was a young actor doing

Prior to doing a ‘Bond’ film, I was a young actor doing classical theater and some BBC dramas. Then, suddenly, I was thrown into this franchise. I had never experienced anything like it.
Toby Stephens
Prior to our daughter being born, I think getting married is another big step. That definitely settles things down personally.
John Isner
I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I’m not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
David Chase
I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.
David Souter
When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment.
Sara Blakely
We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove’s attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11.
Michael Isikoff
Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.
Vanna White
The Internet had a core innovation that made it valuable: The ability to disseminate data over a distributed network in a way that was significantly cheaper than the prior methods.
Fred Ehrsam
Each of the CDs prior to ‘Flirting With Twilight’ were more like roller-coaster rides.
Kurt Elling
We found out that we were dealing with a completely unregulated chemical, this chemical PFOA. This was a chemical that was a completely manmade material invented right after World War Two, didn’t exist on the planet prior to the 1940s.
Robert Bilott
Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.
John Battelle
In 2007, as a condition for hosting the Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government removed restrictions barring Beijing-based journalists from leaving the capital without prior written permission.
Evan Osnos
Units were coming to combat with DCGS because it was their tool kit, so to speak, but they basically had it boxed up and parked in a corner. They were using off-the-shelf stuff they were having to buy prior to coming into the theater.
Michael T. Flynn
Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.
Bernhard Goetz
Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.
Dylan Smith
Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other storytelling mediums, and that’s when I became more, shall we say, evangelistic in my position. Prior to that, I don’t know how enthusiastically I would have admitted that I game.
Tom Bissell
What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day’s high and most likely ‘breaks’ out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
Larry Williams
Prior to getting back into college, I had lots of free time, so I was like, ahhh, I’ve always wanted a master’s, let’s go do it. As soon as I signed up, I had no time.
Tecia Torres
There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.
Bob Graham
Prior to ‘Snowpiercer,’ I’ve done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.
Go Ah-sung
Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.
David D. Burns
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Edsger Dijkstra
Nick Knight was my first big gig as a ‘real’ model. Prior to and during ‘ANTM,’ I never actually called myself a model because I always viewed it as a hobby.
Winnie Harlow
Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher… that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.
Chris Parnell
All I knew about Malayalam cinema prior to ‘Godha’ was that it is an industry that celebrates content and has an audience that appreciates it.
Wamiqa Gabbi
It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.
George Pataki
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
When you think about archaeology, archaeology is the only field that allows us to tell the story of 99 percent of our history prior to 3,000 B.C. and writing.
Sarah Parcak
Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.
Chris Chocola
For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
Randy Neugebauer
Prior to Elephant I’d taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there’s not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn’t really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.
John Robinson
'How to Train Your Dragon,' the first one, was a film I

‘How to Train Your Dragon,’ the first one, was a film I’d seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don’t often watch family animated movies, but it’s one that I loved and thought was really well done: beautifully crafted storytelling.
Kit Harington
Before I left to go to college, I was living in Orange County, Anaheim Hills. And prior to that, I was in Long Beach.
Omar Benson Miller
Prior to ‘Action’ and ‘Justice League 1,’ there was no label ‘superhero’ for a superpowered being. It’s really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they’ve agreed to be our champions.
Jim Lee
What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I’m still struggling with it, 40 years later.
Tim O’Brien