Quotes about years
years six term
I would strenuously urge a single term of six years. Rutherford B. Hayes
years house effort
It could be clearly proved that by a practical nullification [by the South] of the Fifteenth Amendment the Republicans have for several years been deprived of a majority in both the House and Senate. The failure of the South to faithfully observe the Fifteenth Amendment is the cause of the failure of all efforts towards complete pacification. It is on this hook that the bloody shirt now hangs.
years singing done
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned. Ruth Brown
years looks united-states
I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
years remember let-me
I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well? Rudolf Bing
years wrinkles skins
I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet. Ruby Wax
years snakes firsts
The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year. Ross Perot
years two television
The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content. Rosie O'Donnell
years oil landscape
After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils. Ron Parker
years
Everybody thought of me as Arnold Horshack. I resented Horshack for so many years. Ron Palillo
years careers mirrors
An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product. Ron Livingston
years rivers locks
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. Ron Kind
years government democracy
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.
years giving people
If I put my mind to it, and I put the work in, I have no doubt I could do it (pitch 4-5 additional years), but I made a promise to the people who've supported me for so many years. It's time to give back to my family. Roger Clemens
years done
I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen. Sam Rockwell
years names trying
The Naval Academy is a very prestigious place, and I choose to try it. I got there and darn near didn't pass, just about flunked out the first year, but a commandant by the name of Bush Bringle managed to call me in one day and taught me more about leadership in about 15 minutes than I have learned in the rest of my life. And because of Bush Bringle I regained some faith and confidence in myself, learning I had a little bit more in me than I thought, and I went back to work and finished. Sam Smith
years land car
Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day. Sam Shepard
years minimum-wage levels
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation. Russ Carnahan
years oil pumps
Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.
years acting campaigns
I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin. Rupert Penry-Jones
years understanding research
Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough. Rupert Sheldrake
years fcc judging
People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court. Russ Feingold
years government lasts
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.
years oil opening-up
Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package.
years kind trump
All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's over. But these kinds of things aren't gonna work on [Donald] Trump. Rush Limbaugh
years perspective different
It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's perspective is all different.
years hours seems
If you ever find that you only have an hour to live .... spend it with a liberal and it will seem like a year.
years proud best-year
I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever! Thomas Menino
years crow quality
The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract. W. G. Sebald
years oil house
In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways. Virgil Goode
years uniforms talent
Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone. W. H. Auden
years faces disbanded
We disbanded our intelligence and then found we needed it. Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face. William Colby
years minors
I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old, Tony Wilson