Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "there was a time / before we were born / if someone asks, this is where I'll be."

• There was a time before
• Where were you when someone asked where you were when something happened
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• Where's the kaboom?
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• Let there be another next time
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• I felt as calm as the day outside. My footsteps were certain below the neutral sky. I wished there were someone watching.
• There will be time, there will be time, to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
• One day, E2 will attain sentience. And I'll be there to see it.
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• If there were more people like you, there would be more people
• Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• in a world where the bar keeps seeming to be lower, where stupidity has got a foothold, there is room for excellence and uncompromising vision
• The House on the Island Where She Was Born
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• November 4, 1995
• will my heart be there, where I left it so long ago?
• If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads
• There is a space between your shoulders where your wings used to be
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• Before Time Was
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• There Must Be Someone
• What if I were born in someone else's life?
• What face did you have before your mother and father were born?
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• if everyone were 10% more good, there would be a 90% reduction in evil
• There were times better than this
• Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
• Before you, there was me
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• Was There a Time
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• There will be time
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• I will go. I shall go. I'll see where the end may be.
• There are times when they seem to be right
• If there were a slight, let it be fulsome
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• Where we're headed, you'll be looking backwards
• I never asked to be born you know
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• If you were a perfume, your name would be "Butterflies"
• A fine time to be in the Army
• I'll be in my bunk.
• We'd all be better off if shaking hands were making love, and children were found in the cabbage patch.
• I'll Be Your Johnny on the Spot
• Born, never asked
• I'll be waiting for you in heaven... with a gun
• there will be a last
• Tell me what's real and I'll learn to be happy
• His love was enormous; it cleared rooms that desperately wanted to be full.
• Everything seems to be up in the air at this time.
• Where would America be without Canada?
• Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
• Daylight Savings Time should be ended
• Don't be sad, I'll make you happy
• Before long the Goddess Tiamat through hip-hop you'll be facing
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• There Will Be Blood
• The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
• I'll Be a Sunbeam
• It's not that we're more attractive in the darkness or that one of us may be drunk
• If she were an insect, she'd be a moth in search of a flame
• There can be only one
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• There has to be a better way to make human beings
• Time travel, as I think of it, will never be invented
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• We never asked to be babysitters
• Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
• There's got to be a way to make it sweeter, a little more like lemon meringue
• And there will be whores and rumors of whores
• I'm Rudy Giuliani! I was mayor of New York on 9/11! I Should Be The President!
• How to approach a developer who may well be working and ask him a question
• Strange man makes permanent visit
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• Speed limits were made to be broken
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• Before you ask a question
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• the space where you are needs your help to be empty again
• So I was balls deep in the guy's ass that night when he turns to me and asks for a kiss. Damn. What a fag.
• It must be the Friday night before Valentine's Day.
• I was supposed to be somebody by the age of 23
• if I can't be with you, then I'll write about you, or I'll write about something else
• God can't be all good and all powerful at the same time
• Everything you ever wanted to know about theatre tech, but were afraid to ask
• Things to consider if you think someone might be dead
• lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood
• There need to be more powers
• There could still be a reunion of The Band
• If I was a woman I'd be a feminist too
• I'll be
• throw away words we catch in cages where our hearts should be
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)
• I'll be your Huckleberry!
• What would existence be like for a child born with no senses?
• If you ask me about autumn, I'll tell you about
• Next time one of those tough kids asks you to smoke pot, tell them "MY GRASS IS FOR MOWING"
• Let Us Be Merry Before We Go
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Readers Be Where? (e2poll)
• If you ask me about winter, I'll tell you about
• If you ask me about spring, I'll tell you about
• An apocalypse is no time to be wearing a ballgown.
• Ten things to ask yourself before going outside
• There will never be another you
• There'll be plenty of time later to leave things unsaid
• I'll be back at it, dirty and reckless
• All will be devoured within the jaws of terrible time
• If not for bras there would be far too little between men and breasts.
• There ought to be limits to freedom
• If love was a circus, you'd be a clown
• There will be no more stories to read
• Someday, someone will be here unearthing my bones
• In such bounty there can be no shortage
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• Questions you will be asked when you study Chinese
• I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
• Questions I would ask my born-again sister, if we were still talking
• throw them away; there will be individually-wrapped replacements
• Questions will be asked...AND DESTROYED! BY ANSWERS!
• The first time I asked a girl to dance
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• I wanted to see how many times he wouldn't ask.
• Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep?
• And then Satan said, Let there be cricket ball.
• Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
• Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind, knowing when the drumming stops, there will be no second dance
• We knew there would be kissing, and breasts
• I'll never be the other woman
• And Man Said, "Let There Be God."
• There will be nobody there to shed a tear
• Where be ye going, you Devon maid?
• I'll be your fantasy
• If this was an Olympic Sport, I'd be world champion
• If I were watched alone, I'd be considered insane
• Pray ferverently to what gods there be
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• If I could be someone
• I'll be a monkey's uncle
• Should there be a statute of limitations on being a jerk?
• How to be happy for a certain period of time
• Next time one of those tough kids asks you to cultivate bioethanol, tell them "MY CORN IS FOR EATING"
• Who Will Be There
• Some things that fly there be
• If God was willing to let it be
• Limiting the number of fuzzy shirts allowed in one room
• There should be laws requiring electric cars to make the Jetsons flying car noise
• When, if ever, will there be permanent peace in the Balkans?
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• there are some things that can only be said at the top of a ferris wheel
• No One Here Is Ever Going to be President: Noders raise things in the city where things fall down
• That moment before she asked
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
• Maybe someday I'll be an M&M the color of your eyes
• Be careful where you put your laptop
• If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character
• Necronomicon: Of Ye Times And Ye Seasons To Be Observed
• Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost
• On the comet there will be much pie
• If language were liquid, it would be rushing in
• Things never were what they used to be
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• Two Shall Be Born
• Hot pursuit
• Be there or be square
• panamaus does the Antipodes, or Get yer shorts on Sydney, there be a NoderParty!
• Just be home in time for supper
• I'm starting to think the secret is to NOT be rich and prosperous. To be 'unsuccessful' (depending on who you ask)

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