Quotes about year
years democracy taught
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years Robert Caro
years old-friends way
So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me. Robert Carlyle
years canada easy
A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them. Robert Carlyle
years light childhood
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. Robert Carlyle
years lessons genius
It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years. Rivers Cuomo
years waiting feelings
When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag Ritchie Blackmore
years sage littles
Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you. Roald Dahl
years ugly faces
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. Roald Dahl
years people giving
You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest. People who will tell you the truth about it. Over the years I've picked up some friends and I know who to show what to and they'll give me the proper read. Rob Bell
years mind letters
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day Richard Price
years three why-not
If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling? Richard Powers
years two america
Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African. Richard Rodriguez
years suffering world
If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines. Richard Rohr
years way return
As you look back on a year almost ended, recall the ways in which God has been inviting you to return, again and again, to Love which is the same as returning to God Richard Rohr
years games elbows
But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game Richard Krajicek
years professors thai
I’ve heard 14 year old meth addicted thai prostitutes say more prescient things than the woman that was supposedly a “professor Tucker Max
years television next-year
Television and the way we watch is going to change dramatically in the next year. Tucker Carlson
years england certain
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. Trevor McDonald
years feelings way
There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years. Trey Anastasio
years trying lasts
What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts. Tracy Morgan
years voice sometimes
Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years Tori Amos
years sea people
For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . . Vernon A. Walters
years firsts vogue
All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox. Vera Wang
years design frustrated
I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women. Vera Wang
years age twists
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds. Vera Farmiga
years two choices
It wasnt until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed. Vanessa Kerry
years track details
I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track. Valentino Garavani
years bird sunrise
It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds. Valerie Bertinelli
years car tests
If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season. Valentino Rossi
years class two
And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission. Umberto Guidoni
years old-friends temptation
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way. Ugo Betti
years long generations
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards. Richard Dawkins
years mad justice
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. Richard Dawkins