All Quotes

Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by side and not one at the expense of the other.
‐‐ Yitzhak Navon

Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
‐‐ Thomas R. Marshall

Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount.
‐‐ Kenneth Blackwell

Once they become AKC registered, the newspapers will become flooded with ads for them. And you'll see Border collies in pet stores and animal shelters.
‐‐ Donald McCaig

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy.
‐‐ David Cassidy

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.
‐‐ Bud Abbott

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.
‐‐ Ric Ocasek

Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight.
‐‐ Mathias Rust

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.
‐‐ Kit Williams

Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.
‐‐ Deborah Harkness

Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.
‐‐ John Burnside

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.
‐‐ Kenneth R. Miller

Once upon a time, I could sing three hours. Now, when you see me say 'I'm done,' I'm done; ain't nothing left till the next night.
‐‐ Bobby Womack

Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.
‐‐ James Balog

Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
‐‐ Kate Forsyth

Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work only around 35 hours per week. I do not work on weekends because these are the days that I use for research as well as for my writing.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
‐‐ Maggie Stiefvater

Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.
‐‐ Isobelle Carmody

'Once Upon A Time In America' is one of the cleverest films of all time, because you can get out of it whatever you want to get out of it.
‐‐ Ray Winstone

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is one of my favorite films.
‐‐ Michelle MacLaren

'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
‐‐ Jack Zipes

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.
‐‐ Mona Simpson

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
‐‐ Brian Sutton-Smith

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.
‐‐ Johnny Mercer

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
‐‐ Carlo Collodi

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
‐‐ Charles Perrault

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.
‐‐ Charles Perrault

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
‐‐ Joshua Foer

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.
‐‐ Tom Ford

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.
‐‐ George III of the United Kingdom

Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.
‐‐ Sharon Creech

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
‐‐ Ami Ayalon

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
‐‐ Peter Ustinov

Once we as doctors are entrusted with the well-being of our patients and their children, it is our duty to take action, to be selfless, and fulfill our obligation to the service of others. I did so willingly, and it brought me great joy throughout my professional career. However, I always had a desire to do more.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
‐‐ E. E. Cummings