Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy

And I don't cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.
Tiger Woods

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint Augustine