What is more, let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, [he] who knew everything, even before the beginning of time. Saint Patrick
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran . Algernon Charles Swinburne
They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning. Cassandra Clare
When asked, "What did God do before he created the universe?" St. Augustine didn't reply, "he was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions." Instead, he said that time was a property of the Universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the Universe. Stephen Hawking