Quotes about year
years dialect hundred
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so. William Labov
years african-american important
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
years house pounds
In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. William Lilly
years majesty quiet
After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.
years language evolution
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. William Irwin Thompson
years rehearsal nine
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out William Hurt
years october sun
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. William C. Bryant
years unity lovers
All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one. William Butler Yeats
years sea dancing
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
years vanity long
Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.
years choices insightful
I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable. Walter White
years gentleman cost
Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life. Walter Savage Landor
years two behavior
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior. Walter Scott
years people lists
In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment. Walter Gilbert
years humans ifs
I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living. Walter F. Mondale
years frustrated speech
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense. Walter Dean Myers
years ducks use
When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts. William Jackson
years eight dancer
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.
years giving water
Let's care and nurture our bodies. You are looking after something from a very early stage. Like a plant, you're giving it food and water and when it grows, look at the amount of buds it gives you. Every year it flourishes and comes back time and time again. Look after yourselves and don't be embarrassed about it. William Katt
years people choices
One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind. Yishan Wong
years two interesting
One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this. Yo-Yo Ma
years answers phases
You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
years relax want
With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
years curves planning
I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.
years engagement remember
I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old. Winona Ryder
years islands dying
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism. Winston Churchill
years world stills
When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'
years people bombs
From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.
years eight arrogance
I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.
years style trying
We don't have to make the bible relevant-it is-but we have to show its relevance. What is irrelevant, in my opinion, is our style of communicating it. We are tending to still use the style from 50 years back that doesn't match who we are trying to reach today. Rick Warren
years church firsts
I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.
years purpose asking
There is an entire generation who was too young to read 'The Purpose Driven Life' 10 years ago but are now asking the critical question, 'What on earth am I here for?'
years forever earth
At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.