Quotes about year
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
years parent age
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. Al Bernstein
years people would-be
Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that he no longer could contribute. Al Davis
years games nfl
If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.
years somewhere-else target
If you want a free email service that doesn't use your words to target ads to you, you'll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service. Al Franken
years offensive appropriate
For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
years ideas support
I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
years feet guy
Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
years challenges today
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years. Al Gore
years civilization fire
What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these fires. Hurricane Irene one year before.
years two race
I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.
years hopeful age
I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers. I'm hopeful that new business models will emerge that allow the newspaper culture to genuinely thrive in the digital age.
years records lasts
The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.
years united-states coal
There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it's burnt. But there's not a single demonstration project in the United States. Clean coal doesn't exist.