The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
Louis Agassiz

In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night.
Mark Spitz

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.
Mark Spitz

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
Kate Winslet

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
Terry Brooks

I know I cannot do all the stuff that I did ten years ago.
Rajendra Prasad

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.
Kylie Minogue

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.
Kylie Minogue

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
Rick Moranis

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.
David Wilkerson

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
Joseph Barbera

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.
Paul Bettany

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.
John Foster Dulles

I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
Walter Hill

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
Anita Roddick

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.
Roy Ayers

I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower.
Gypsy Rose Lee

One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.
Steve Kanaly

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.
Lou Gramm

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Barry Commoner