Home / Topics / Years Ago Quotes

Years Ago Quotes

Browse 2903 quotes about Years Ago.

Years Ago Quotes

“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?”

Thinking Years Children Wanted America Moving Grows Sides Animal Boys Growing Up Nice Years Ago Twenties East Profession Jungle Columbus Wild Animal East Side

Author:Abraham Polonsky

“In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.”

Years States Law Boys Taste Years Ago Southern Mississippi

Author:Phil Ochs

“Twelve years ago I made a mock Of filthy trades and traffics; I considered what they meant by stock; I wrote delightful sapphics; I knew the streets of Rome and Troy, I supped with fates and Fairies-- Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy at Drury's.”

Years Made Education Boys Fate Streets Years Ago Trade Fairy Rome Twelve Traffic Delightful Mock Filthy

Author:Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.”

Source: A Child's Christmas in Wales

“You have to realize that, about 20,000 years ago, there was a cataclysmic event when an entire rock face collapsed and sealed off the cave. It's a completely preserved time capsule. You've got tracks of cave bears that look like they were left yesterday, and you've got the footprint of a boy who was probably eight years old next to the footprint of a wolf.”

Years Looks Faces Next Left Realizing Boys Rocks Events Bears Years Ago Track Eight Yesterday Caves Footprint Time Capsules

Author:Werner Herzog

“Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.”

Years Character Remember Boys New York Years Ago Fishes Hotel Dedicated Remember When Motorcycle Rumble Mayflower

Author:Mickey Rourke

“Normal people, fear the day their parents die. Screwed up people, fear that their parents are going to live forever. Showing up at your house at weird hours of the night, smelling all funny, with a bunch of their friends. Hey boy, this is Harold, Cecil and Dicky. Dicky lost his wife about a year ago. I hear Erin made cookies. Where can I put my shoes ? If that doesn't scare you, you're not human.”

People Ifs Years Humans Made Night Dies House Lost Parent Hours Boys Forever Wife Normal Years Ago Shoes Bunch Hey Scare Cookies Live Forever Showing Up Screwed Up Erin

Author:Christopher Titus

“I've been rapping and writing since junior high school, just having fun with it as a hobby. Then I got signed to a label Poe Boy Entertainment four years ago, I started taking it serious about a year and a half, two years ago.”

“There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then I translated that to playing boys in animated shows. I was like, "Whoa, this is intense."”

Years Shows Boys Stage Years Ago Cameras I Realized Intense Animated

Author:Pamela Adlon

“I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in.”

Years Book Country Found Left Speak Understanding Dark Cities Boys Written Crazy New York Years Ago Boston Coping Being Crazy Anti Semitism Anti Semitic

Author:Nat Hentoff

“I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.”

Years Book Left Speak Numbers Boys Written New York Years Ago Passages Boston Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Nat Hentoff

“A couple of years ago, my wife, Erica, and I were getting our daughter ready for school and an image of President [Barack] Obama was on one of the morning shows. And I said, oh, look, Carina, there's the president. You can be president one day. And she said, right away, that's for boys. And so right away I said, oh, no, you can be a doctor. You can be a lawyer. You can be anything you want. You can be president.”

Want Years Looks Said Shows School President Boys Morning Wife Ready Couple One Day Daughter Years Ago Doctors My Wife Lawyer Barack President Barack Obama Our Daughter

Author:Julian Castro

“My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.”

People Years Littles Black President Differences White Behinds Boys Wife Dog Years Ago Folks Scared Smell My Wife Ran Jail No Fear Little Boys Trifling

Author:Dick Gregory