Quotes about years
years childhood chaos
I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it. Jeremy Sisto
years people lasts
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this. Jeremy Rifkin
years self birth
Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it. Jenny Offill
years kind desks
For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.
years berlin england
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny. Jenny Eclair
years ideas vaccines
The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule. Jenny McCarthy
years dancer ballerina
I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be. Jenna Jameson
years cities long
If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction. Glen Hansard
years america priorities
I contend that the reason why America is not as happy as it was in 1950 or 1920 or whenever, 100 years ago, is because our priorities are wrong, but it has nothing to do with exploiting the planet and has everything to do with losing faith in God. Glenn Beck
years hottest
The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.
years enough more-money
Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent. Giles Andreae
years focus television
After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film. Gillian Anderson
years doctrine sin
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. Gilbert K. Chesterton
years people looks
A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they're going to do. It has to contain where you are, and how many people are there, and what they do, and what time of day it is, and what time of year it is. Harry Shearer
years giving able
The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.
years great-year prove
Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again. Hanley Ramirez
years insanity monitoring
I have been monitoring your earthly broadcasts for many years. Frank Zappa
years people kevin
The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them. Fred Savage
years done forty
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet. Fred Saberhagen
years ham pancakes
It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year. Fred Melamed
years age goes-on
All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been! Fred Rogers
years people feelings
People have said, 'Don't cry' to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, 'I'm too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don't cry.' I'd rather have them say, 'Go ahead and cry. I'm here to be with you.'
years two-year-olds parent
Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.
years wish care
It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.
years giving advice
I intended to give you some advice but now I remember how much is left over from last year unused. George Harris
years trends matter
And so my music, it doesn't matter if I did it 20 years ago or if I did it tomorrow. It doesn't go with trends. My trousers don't get wider and tighter every six months. My music just stays what it is, and that's the way I like it. George Harrison
years trying four
When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying. Harmon Killebrew
years cinema birth
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal. Harmony Korine
years long adoption
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years. Harold Brodkey
years four three
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words. Haile Gebrselassie
years musical orchestra
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life. Gunther Schuller
years interesting way
Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and been amazed at how she gets into her own thoughts onto the screen in a very elegant and focused way. You have to see this. Gus Van Sant
years volunteer criminals
I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit. Gunter Grass