Jacob Whitesides

Every song is personal, but 'Ohio,' on my first EP, was on another level. I really opened up about the lack of relationship I had with my father. We stopped talking about four years ago, and I haven't had a father figure in my life since.

American Musician

Jamal Crawford

Obviously, having your peers' respect is everything. I learned that a long time ago: that some people see you one way, some people see you another way, but having your peers' respect is what's really important.

American Athlete

Eric Carle

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

American Author

Dolly Parton

Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

American Singer

George Blanda

I learned a long time ago that you only have a few friends in this world - your wife and family and a very few friends.

American Football Player

Heather Headley

Truth be told, I decided years ago not to call it a job, because I know people who work - my mother worked, hard.

Trinidadian Musician

Etta James

A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

John Lithgow

It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.

American Actor

Philip K. Dick

Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.

American Writer

Don Rickles

My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.

American Comedian

Used when referencing time relative to the present, pointing backwards to a specific time.

Relative to Present

Typically refers to past events, cannot be used for future or ongoing events.

Past Events

Always specify the time period when using 'ago', like minutes, days, or years.

Specific Timeframe

 It was in front of the whole class and I felt dreadful. But it's what I wanted, and as soon as I left school, I applied to the fire service and I was accepted. You know, I was thinking about that guy recently, just a few minutes ago when you were speaking, about this teacher, because six months ago, I saved his life."

Bring on the learning...

 been lied to for all these years but I'm interested in knowing what impact this might have not only for science but for society at large so we're heading to meet with an astrophysicist that we hope can answer some of these questions the universe began about fourteen billion years ago an event that we call the Big

Flat Earth vs. Round...

 And being able to use the chemical energy in oxygen gave organisms the boost they needed to diversify and evolve more complex forms. Cyanobacteria had a part to play in that story, too. Hundreds of millions of years ago, some other prehistoric microbe swallowed a cyanobacterium whole

How a single-celled...

 that we don't yet know how to match in machines. So the question is, how far are we from being able to match those tricks? A couple of years ago, we did a survey of some of the world's leading A.I. experts, to see what they think, and one of the questions we asked was,

What happens when our...

 it tells us how humans sailed the seas, and what life was like millennia ago. So what exactly can we find? At shallow depths mingled in with modern-day items, we've discovered all sorts of ancient artifacts. This zone contains evidence of how our ancestors fished,

How much of human...

 But why is it important to see such distant objects anyway? Well, remember how fast light travels. For example, the light emitted by the Sun will take eight minutes to reach us, which means that the light we see now is a picture of the Sun eight minutes ago.

Light seconds, light...

 All the information in the world won't be very useful unless you know how to read the news. To your grandparents, parents, or even older siblings, this idea would have sounded strange. Only a few decades ago, news was broad-based. Your choices were limited

How to choose your news...

 asking here you got involved in this fad gosh a couple decades ago about Salman Rushdie and you were reported as having supporting the fatwa against him I mean do you regret how that played out I regret the question

A message of peace, hope...

 About 66 million years ago, something terrible happened to life on our planet. Ecosystems were hit with a double blow as massive volcanic eruptions filled the atmosphere with carbon dioxide

When will the next mass...

 introduced here just 40 years ago they have proliferated virtually exterminated the local fish stocks and they've now developed a taste for pigeon

Ago

Relative to Present

Past Events

Specific Timeframe

Compare with

Never forget "Ago"

WordUp Chrome Extension