Quotes about year
years culture world
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world. Iain McGilchrist
years care environment
It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment. Ian Bremmer
years years-ago england
A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos Ian Botham
years reform welfare
After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair. Iain Duncan Smith
years political politician
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
years doe fifty
Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you. Iain Banks
years yesterday age
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into the yesterday of the globe, far less touch the myriads of ages spread out beyond. Hugh Miller
years trying music-education
When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa. Hugh Masekela
years machines hell
An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell. Hugo Chavez
years careers people
It's never happened to me before, in my career, and never will again. It's a one-off experience. It's a rare treat to have a cast together for six years. Crews come and go, and a few of them have been there throughout, but not many. It's rare, in my experience, after 26 years, to have had a proper company in a show that enjoys each other's company, and who is such a fine bunch of people and actors. To have struck a chord with people, and to have had that combination, is extremely rare. Hugh Bonneville
years numbers borders
After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy. Howie Carr
years greed tragedy
You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s. Howard Warren Buffett
years cost assets
The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time.
years wayne made
I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too. Howard Hawks
years different twenties
Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. Howard Gardner
years tolerance
Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others. Hosea Ballou
years hair tears
Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb. Horace
years fleeting aging
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
years two three
I bartended for a catering company for two or three years. Hank Azaria
years firsts remember
I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.
years names ruth
I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth. Hank Aaron
years two long
I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.
years way convincing
The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God. Hannah Arendt
years europe nightfall
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling. Guy Gavriel Kay
years legacy eras
Obviously we're celebrating a 36-year legacy on ABC and the end of an era, but we're also celebrating the start of a new era with this great property on ESPN. It's a bit of mixed emotions. George Bodenheimer
years waiting trying
Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years. George Burns
years exciting decided
This is all so exciting I've decided to keep making one movie every 36 years.
years people littles
People expect too much of one year and too little of ten. George Bernard Shaw
years doctors meat
It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
years twenties vegetarian
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
years europe islam
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
years two track
There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good. Gelsey Kirkland
years two fiction
This is our most complete record by far. A Hundred Million Suns sounds like the marriage of everything we learned from the Jeepster years and the Fiction years made into something new and bolder. Our spikiness and our indie-ness are coming through again with all the poppiness of the last two records. There's a lot of melody here and you can't cloak that whatever you do with it. This album is touched by our entire history, and hopefully sounds like our future too. Gary Lightbody