Quotes about years
years history stupidity
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. William E. Gladstone
years san-francisco baltimore
I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. Wendell Pierce
years needs get-over
I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him Wendelin Van Draanen
years two tree
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. Wendell Berry
years practice two
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.
years get-better looks
We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power. Walter Russell Mead
years america people
Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
years routine-work desire
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life. Walter Pater
years twenties problem
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty. W. Somerset Maugham
years advice firsts
Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
years land house
...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures. Vladimir Nabokov
years childhood sorrow
The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.
years done prison
Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong. Yoko Ono
years economic crisis
The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years. Yanis Varoufakis
years europe greek
European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.
years needs helping
The trust we build over the years if of tremendous help to me when I start in a new project and need to find associates. Yann Arthus-Bertrand
years two two-years
I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years. Yancy Butler
years firsts tournaments
The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won. Yani Tseng
years focus three
I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
years important age
It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
years canada four
I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. Yann Martel
years unfinished-work liberty
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history. Xavier Becerra
years role-models lasts
To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years. Xavi
years lasts midfielders
In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen - the most complete - is SCHOLES
years able
It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it. Wynonna Judd
years three four
I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago. Wyclef Jean
years arrogant hollywood
I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.
years office president
I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
years listening jazz
When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year. Wynton Marsalis
years play four
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
years two hearing
Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley. Wolfman Jack
years cities citizens
Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need for places to pray. Wolfgang Schauble
years outcast raised
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. Willie Stargell