Top 342 Earlier Quotes

When I was younger, I definitely wish I had felt more… I just wish I had started actually putting out my music earlier because I didn’t do it until I graduated high school and felt like I was leaving. That’s mostly because I have never liked my voice a lot or been like a particularly great singer.
Soccer Mommy
I feel like everyone could do with starting wearing SPF at least a decade earlier than they do, just for ageing.
Ellie Taylor
You’re actually putting someone down by saying that you don’t understand their culture and hence it’s not normal. Perhaps some things we find ‘new’ were simply things we were ignorant to earlier.
Dominique Jackson
I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn’t listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
Imran Amed
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.
John Negroponte
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
Anne Stevenson
When Apple introduced its game-changing iPhone in 2007, Nokia was caught sleeping on the job. Although it had actually developed an iPhone-style device – complete with a color touchscreen, maps, online shopping, the lot – some seven years earlier. Astonishingly, it never released the product.
Noreena Hertz
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
Ken Olsen
Sarvam’… has no gloss that you associate with my earlier work.
Rajiv Menon
If I’d have known how much fun fatherhood would be, I would have started way earlier than 45.
John Cooper Clarke
All my earlier awards were for a particular film or a song. Even the Oscar or the Grammy was for a particular song, but Dadasaheb Phalke is for my entire work so it is the biggest honor for me.
Gulzar
My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. For me, Reagan was what John F. Kennedy had been to an earlier generation: an inspirational figure who shaped my worldview.
Max Boot
I used to be the occasional social drinker earlier. But now my intake of alcohol has ceased completely. I want to be fighting fit for the boxing ring.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
If I'd met the prince two or three years earlier, perha

If I’d met the prince two or three years earlier, perhaps I might not have married him – at least not so soon. But we came together at the right time.
Grace Kelly
I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.
Sarah McLachlan
I was saying earlier that it’s really strange – you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that’s what I was doing.
Marcus Allen
Earlier in my career, I just wanted to be an entertainer.
Metta World Peace
I do wish I could have given myself permission to really name and own the me of me earlier in life.
Rachel Dolezal
One of the reasons I didn’t really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.
Andie MacDowell
All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
E. F. Benson
There’s always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for my position with the New York Jets. And that’s the reason to get up earlier or stay up later.
Tim Tebow
Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California’s schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
Conan O’Brien
When I look at my earlier work, I often wonder why I acted like that, why I wore that dress, why I said that dialogue… Why couldn’t I do it better? I realized I was too young then and not confident.
Riya Sen
I’m not sure what my material would have been if I’d have started earlier. I probably would have started with ‘Damsels in Distress’ kinds of films because that’s the kind of comedy I was writing in college. So I didn’t really have any life experience to work off of.
Whit Stillman
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
Haile Selassie
My parents were early adopters, and I’ve been online since a rather young age. You should regard anything from 2001 or earlier as having been written by a different person who also happens to be named ‘Eliezer Yudkowsky.’ I do not share his opinions.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company – almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.
Katie Hafner
We’ve all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn’t deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.
Ariel Garten
I grew up in the eighties; that’s probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.
Chino Moreno
Even earlier there were songs where I was not finding appropriate voices, but still I overlooked that and didn’t get the perfect voice to sing it. Now I won’t do that.
Rajesh Roshan
Well, I’d had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
Noel Redding
Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it’s show time and you’re at your best.
Robin S. Sharma
I’m not superstitious. But my mother doesn’t allow me to cut my nails after dark. Earlier, I used to wear a scapular from Potta around my neck, given to me by a family member. But during my shoots, it’s not possible, so I tie it on my right wrist for protection.
Krystle D’Souza
Earlier, I only used to get the ball into right handers. Over the years, I have developed some variations, thanks to first-class cricket and IPL.
Jasprit Bumrah
In late 2001, I contributed a short story called ‘Castaways’ to an anthology called ‘In Laymon’s Terms,’ which was a tribute to Richard Laymon, who had passed away earlier that year.
Brian Keene
My biggest misfortune, my greatest regret, is that I wish I’d cut my time with Clint in half. I wouldn’t say I wish I never had the relationship, but I wish I’d found a way – I’d understood who he was, where it would end – five or six years earlier so I could have gotten on with things.
Sondra Locke
I wish I could’ve met my wife earlier. I do the math and I want 30 more years. I wish I’d started having kids earlier.
Steve Young
There are definitely things about ‘Legendary Child’ that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It’s got the right stuff.
Joe Perry
I really wish that ‘Angrezi Medium’ would have released a little earlier or little after – at least, we would have had a proper release. The movie was taken down after one day of release. It is such a beautiful film and Irrfan Khan hasn’t done a film in a long time, given his health conditions.
Kiku Sharda
Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.
Claudia Rankine
When I was 15, I became the youngest grandmaster in the world, breaking the record set by Bobby Fischer more than three decades earlier.
Judit Polgar
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
James Hillman
Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.
Peter Riegert
Disco music has had its opportunity earlier and now the young people have taken it to another level. DJs are using our music and creating innovative remixes out of it. This is the way party is today. You can say, it’s a new type of disco now.
Liz Mitchell
Some people associate red with love, but to me, red is

Some people associate red with love, but to me, red is for an earlier stage of a relationship. Black is much deeper, to me. It’s certainly the sexiest color.
Dierks Bentley
The decision for me was whether to have ‘The Father’ be a book that told a story – from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter – without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.
Sharon Olds
Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.
Arthur L. Herman
I am looking neither backward nor ahead. I am not thinking of what Salman has done earlier and what is the competition for my film. I am only focusing on getting it right in ‘Kick.’
Sajid Nadiadwala
I was just 15 years old when I did my first film, ‘Faulad,’ in 1963, opposite Dara Singh. Although I had worked earlier as a child actress, this was my first break as a lead heroine.
Mumtaz
If I had one regret in life… it’s that I was not more humble at an earlier age.
Rick Pitino