Quotes about year
years parent prison
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. Orson Scott Card
years labyrinth paradise
You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed. Rick Riordan
year
We've got about a year to get it right. Jane Harman
years opposites facts
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades. Stephen Jay Gould
years joy history-of-life
If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.
years water people
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs. William Makepeace Thackeray
years challenges age
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives. Billy Graham
years voice world
Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years.
years making-love world
All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world. Kurt Vonnegut
years stories whole
Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.
years tonight hopes-and-fears
The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.
years law stronger
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
years slaughterhouse-five world
The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.
years eight scientist
Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
years equal
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
years grace needs
Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a corporation. Over-the-fence exchanges have started to be treated as crimes. Or, if you need a biological pest control, you can no longer use the need seed in your back yard. Instead you have to depend on the Grace Corporation or some other entity. That kind of dependency basically leads to increased poverty and increased ecological destruction. Vandana Shiva
year
There have been some parallels. Although, I think every year is different.
years weather months
The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over. William Shakespeare
year
Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,
years trying records
I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live. Beck
years records always-working
I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.
years holocaust bells
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
years lasts songwriting
I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.
years important next-year
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure. Barry Ritholtz
years giving sublime
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget. Barry Lopez
years lakes people
The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people! Babatunde Osotimehin
years house tunisia
I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings. Azzedine Alaia
years people realizing
It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music. B. B. King
years fifteen twenties
I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness. Billy Corgan
years acting want
It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession. Bill Fagerbakke
years doe morality
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years. Bill Condon
years culture four
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker. Bharati Mukherjee
years play league
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen. Bert Campaneris