“Tell me the tales that to me were so dear,
Long, long ago, long, long ago.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer
Long, long ago, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.”
Source: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
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Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
Straight from the Heart, written by Bryan Adams and Eric Kagna
Song lyrics, Cuts Like a Knife (1983)
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj book I Am That
I am
Variant: Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.
Source: I Am That
Context: "I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says 'I am everything'. Wisdom says "I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both."
“So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.”
Andrew Sean Greer (1970) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
Morrissey (1959) English singer
From the 1987 song "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
From songs
“Well, it's a long time coming,
And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.”
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Innkeeper
A Child is Born (1942)
Context: Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls,
Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars —
They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble,
Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy
That something new is coming to the world,
The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming,
And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
Where Do the Children Play?
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)