Quotes about years
years people firsts
With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them. Jared Diamond
years lines months
I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then. Janice Dickinson
years five-years five
Biological knowledge is doubling every five years. Janine Benyus
years community alternatives
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community. Janet Reno
years imagination sides
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had. Janet Jackson
years doing-me publicity
They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years. Jane Russell
years goal trying
So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me. Jane Siberry
years bob dylan
You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan. Burton Cummings
years design whole
At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do. Burt Rutan
years way shows
When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things. Celine Dion
years kitchen tables
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
years goal wife
Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations. Cesar Millan
years america age
When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.
years people peaceful
Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor. Cesar Chavez
years next-day people
I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day. Catherine Opie
years feel-good tvs
I've been doing makeovers on TV for years and years and years. It's something I really know how to do. I also know personally what it's like to not feel good about yourself. Carson Kressley
years two people
For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself. Carroll Quigley
years important different
After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods.
years wreckage columns
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years. Carson McCullers
years trying together
Listen,” F. Jasmine said. “What I’ve been trying to say is this. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are you? I am F. Jasmine Addams. And you are Berenice Sadie Brown. And we can look at each other, and touch each other, and stay together year in and year out in the same room. Yet always I am I, and you are you. And I can’t ever be anything else but me, and you can ever be anything else but you. Have you ever thought of that? And does it seem to you strange?
years looks mammals
Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses and so if there was a virus that infected our pre mammal ancestors like 250 million years ago, which it probably did, we can't see it because it just looks totally random. Carl Zimmer
years names honor
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor. Carl Schurz
years two people
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago? Alan Lightman
years another-year novel
My second novel, Good Benito, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
years two trying
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. Alan Dean Foster
years identity taught
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. Alan Dundes
years students
I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time. Alan Dershowitz
years harvard feels
I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.
years issues mad
I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it. Al Yankovic
years careers people
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
years careers albums
One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
years sick hamburgers
Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
years lasts enough
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough. Alain de Botton