233 Quotes About Long-ago

There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the efforts of any one physicist, but because of a flowering of many seeds of theory, most of them planted long ago.

Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.

The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.

Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.