Quotes about years
years civilization effort
No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement. Franklin D. Roosevelt
years erosion valleys
A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart. George Gaylord Simpson
years people bugs
MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain George Galloway
years ivy league
In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise. George Gilder
years people groups
Years ago when you?d go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be. Jon Postel
years long track
One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making. Jon Meacham
years joy conservative
I’ve been married for 29 years. My marriage has been the greatest joy of my life. There is nothing conservative about denying other Americans the ability to forge that same relationship with the person they love. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
years records minimum-wage
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels. Jon Corzine
years charity profit
Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things. Jon Fishman
years earth facts
You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.
years age young
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
years ukulele guitar
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself Johnny Winter
years body treats
Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years. Johnny Weissmuller
years eight wife
I'm gonna try to be cured. I've been on heroin eight years and I want to try a different style of life. It made me split up from my wife. It ruined a lot of things for me. Johnny Thunders
years class band
The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn't feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves. Johnny Ramone
years hair blazers
I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed. Johnny Weir
years age lawyer
I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age. Johnnie Cochran
years law next
On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.
years great-year boston
I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time. Johnny Damon
years laughing lucky
I'm often asked, 'What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted The Tonight Show?' I really don't have just one. The times I enjoyed the most were the spontaneous, unplanned segments that just happened, like Ed Ames' infamous 'Tomahawk Toss' that produced one of the longest laughs in television history. When these lucky moments happen, you just go with them and enjoy the experience and high of the moment. Johnny Carson
years age looks
Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself. Lynn Redgrave
years disease lasts
He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.
years differences people
The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years. Lynn Margulis
years taxes raising-taxes
We rule out raising taxes this year. Luis de Guindos
years horror graves
Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. Luis Bunuel
years two feet
The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet. Luc Montagnier
years careers ideas
Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their careers before can be a rather slow process and a long process, it certainly was the case at Harvard, and it's the case with most of the general education curricula that I know of, it takes four or five years just to get everybody on board with one idea. Louis Menand
years long insecurity
The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.
years bulls commodity
Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years. Jim Rogers
years today fossils
This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels. Jim Wallis
years iraq reform
A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
years water cost
Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season.
years long stripes
Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start. John Collison