Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future."
Source: address to the Empire Club and the Royal Commonwealth Society, June 26, 1996
Source: address to the Empire Club and the Royal Commonwealth Society, June 26, 1996
“In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life.”
Pythagoras, 25.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 8: Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
“Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.”
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
“The golden time of Long Ago.”
I. H. Bromley, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)
Context: I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.
“A long long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile”
Song lyrics, American Pie (1971), American Pie
Context: A long long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while.
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The Day the Music Died.
Eric Chu (2015) cited in " Chu meets AIT's Kin; mum on US trip http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/presidential-election/2015/10/21/448879/Chu-meets.htm" on The China Post, 21 October 2015.
