Quotes about years
years two rivers
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain
years differences long
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.
years together remember
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.
years ice data
We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous. Nicholas Stern
years world temperature
A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.
years way online
By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another. Nicholas Negroponte
years design personality
[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.
years together way
She'd preferred the uncertainty, if only because it allowed her to remember him the way he used to be. Sometimes, though, she wondered what he felt when he thought of that year they spent together, or if he ever marveled at what they'd shared, or even whether he thought of her at all. Nicholas Sparks
years stills knows
It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.
years essence gentleman
I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true. Ne-Yo
years boxing world
If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years. Muhammad Ali
years jail belief
I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.
years white america
Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.
years sick support
Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for 35 years. We are like a sick patient who is in need of care, and they are increasing prices
years two skins
I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my entire life, so I had to learn on set for those two years. I had to keep my head screwed on and learn from the other cast. Mitch Hewer
years citizens tonight
So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive. Mitch Daniels
years bills woods
Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the Stimulus bill. Mitch McConnell
years america government
America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
years way would-be
I joked recently that I thought 30 seconds a day for three years would be the best way to enjoy it, and I'm going to stand by that statement. Mitchell Hurwitz
years want comedy
When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback. Mitch Hedberg
years oasis band
Some of my favourites... there's the classics like Blur and Oasis and Pulp, Suede and The Charlatans, The La's, The Smiths, The Cure, stuff like that. That was a huge part of my teen-years and bands I still listen to right through to this day, but it had a huge bearing on me as a teen and it was some of my favourite music, and is still to this day some of my favourite music. Mikey Way
years lasts hollywood
Every so often in the last 20 years, Hollywood has called. And every time they've called, we've answered? because they have lots of money. Margo Timmins
years tolerance islam
We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction. Margrethe II of Denmark
years way certain
I feel like, in a way, after doing it for so many years, you learn a certain concentration and how to turn it on and off. Maria Bello
years guy why-not
This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not? Margot Kidder
years allies five-years
Just five years before that the Russians were our allies Martin Landau
years justice tonight
We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice. Martin Luther King, Jr.
years voice abuse
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
years painful-experiences direct-action
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'
years rights three
We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
years white america
And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.
years want firsts
The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing." Mark Webber
years america role-models
America Ferrera is definitely one of my biggest role models, and she has been for the last three years. Like a big sister, someone I can look up to and aspire to be. Mark Indelicato