Top 215 Long Time Ago Quotes

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago.
Tommy Franks
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Sarah Vowell
Granddad taught me a long time ago, act like you’ve been there before.
Jason Witten
When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that’s what sells records and then you realize, ‘All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,’ it feels good to have success come from what’s actually inside of you.
Jessica Simpson
You know, now it’s sinking in. It’s taken me a long time to realize – and it is sinking in – how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I’ve done it such a long time ago.
Eric Carle
I decided a long time ago that protecting our Second Amendment means doing so across the board, no exceptions.
Ronny Jackson
A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
Abraham Polonsky
I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.
Bob Ainsworth
When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.
Amy Clampitt
Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
Eileen Myles
My parents came a long time ago to Vienna, met in Vienna. Of course they had to go through a lot also, but we’re very happy to have our home in Vienna.
David Alaba
In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.
George Allen
I’ll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction.
Robert Crais
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
Michelangelo Antonioni
We forget when we’re all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It’s hard to remember how freakin’ difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you’re trying to figure stuff out.
Greg Rucka
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
John McCain
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don’t want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
Shahid Khan
I always say that music is a small drop in the ocean of life. I was told a long time ago that your horn, or whatever instrument you play, is a means to be in the world.
Wayne Shorter
I learned a long time ago: You’re in the entertainment business. You’re not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
Dennis Farina
A long time ago I started talking into a balloon so I could feel myself talking, to practice judging volume, and compare it to other musicians.
Mandy Harvey
It makes me very sad. Everyone's afraid of each other -

It makes me very sad. Everyone’s afraid of each other – Jews are afraid of Palestinians, Palestinians are afraid of Jews. Everywhere I see fear, not understanding. Reason went out of the window a long time ago.
Miriam Margolyes
Long time ago, we used to sit around eating popcorn and drawing up plays.
Nick Nurse
I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn’t feel natural or true to who I am.
Lynn Coady
Someone said to me a long time ago, ‘You’re a drag queen,’ and at the time I was a little like… hello? But then I realized over the years that I actually am.
Roisin Murphy
I did an album a long time ago called ‘Replicas,’ which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it’s been a song here, a song there. It’s not really a constant theme. I’ve written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
Gary Numan
YG and I started a long time ago back in ’08, and I am proud of where we are now.
Ty Dolla Sign
A long time ago, I watched President Reagan repeat a few simple points about the benefits for everyone of lower taxes, light regulations, and limited government. Successful policies are sold by repetition, not unrelated tangents.
Lawrence Kudlow
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
I feel like I hadn’t given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched ‘Casablanca’ a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn’t like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.
Miranda Cosgrove
I learned a long time ago that you can’t skip steps.
Monty Williams
I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it’s all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you’re a sum of your choices.
Richard Linklater
Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn’t mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.
Mike McCarthy
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.
Sue Monk Kidd
Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.
Louise Fletcher
A long time ago, my grandfather used to play blackjack with me, when I was very small, and I quite enjoyed that.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
I decided a long time ago that I didn’t have to be talented. I just had to be persistent.
Kate DiCamillo
Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don’t know if there’s an obvious business model. I don’t think there’s a competitive, sustainable advantage.
Aaron Patzer
I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn’t happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues.
Salman Khan
My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that’s part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it’s classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.
Jessica Stockholder
I’m in my mid-40s now, and I came out in 11th grade, so I must have been 17. So that’s quite a long time ago, and the temperature and the culture was different.
Lisa Cholodenko
I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
Sacheen Littlefeather
I learned a long time ago through my dad that you shouldn’t really compare yourself to others – just because that hampers how good you can be.
Marcus Mariota
A long time ago I learned how to shut my mouth, listen to my coaches and put trust in my coaches.
Jake Hager
Instant dashi is also the key ingredient to these savory dinner oats, which I developed specifically to showcase this powerful powder. Someone a long time ago decided that oatmeal belonged in the breakfast category, but I think that chewy, hearty, steel-cut oats need more airtime in our lives.
Sohla El-Waylly
Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
John Ratzenberger
I’ve always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I’ve always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.
Natalie Cole
I gave up hunting a long time ago.
Dan Bilzerian
My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.
Bryant Gumbel
If you eat the same cereal every day it’s gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.
Shaun White