Quotes about years
years joy enough
We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope. William Wordsworth
years broadway return
My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years. William Shatner
years may pessimistic
There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start. William McFee
years historical stronger
And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000. William J. Clinton
years land slave-ships
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.
years president four
President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years.
years greed age
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.
years age lasts
In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.
years numbers people
Today, I want to talk about Social Security and how all of us can ensure that one of the greatest achievements of this century continues to serve our people well into the next. . . . For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values - our respect fr our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.
years trying would-be
Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.
years whales two
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way. Will Cuppy
years bird wrens
The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
years laughing done
I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable, i'll just watch and sadly laugh along. Will Ferrell
years two three
I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years. Whitfield Diffie
years fishing three
I'd rather go fishing for three years. Whitey Herzog
years laughing hundred
I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred. Sarah Rees Brennan
years office personality
The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault. Sarah Palin
years challenges four
I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful. Sarah Brightman
years week happens
No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you. Sara Zarr
years choices once-upon-a-time
Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago. Sarah Ban Breathnach
years fax-machines firsts
My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years. Sara Blakely
years way firsts
Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.
years firsts revenue
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
years polaroids clear
You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.
years islam doe
Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise. Samuel P. Huntington
years progress next-year
The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited. William Feather
years
Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible. William Faulkner
years discipline people
In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people have spent less time in nature, and higher education has placed less value on such disciplines as zoology……The times are right for the return of the amateur, twenty-first-century, citizen naturalist. To be a citizen naturalist is to take personal action, to both protect and participate in nature. Richard Louv
years justice cents
I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice, Richard M. Nixon
years cost care
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. Ric Keller
years people wonderful
For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough,'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels. Rebecca Mader
years stories television
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone. Rebecca Eaton
years skulls wife
I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am. Richard Schiff