Quotes about years
years historical stronger
And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000. William J. Clinton
years land slave-ships
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.
years president four
President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years.
years frustrated example
We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to free speech than the rest of us. For example, they say you couldn't stop me from spending all the money I've saved over the last five years on Hillary's campaign if I wanted to, even though it would clearly violate the spirit of campaign finance reform.
years greed age
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.
years age lasts
In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.
years numbers people
Today, I want to talk about Social Security and how all of us can ensure that one of the greatest achievements of this century continues to serve our people well into the next. . . . For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values - our respect fr our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.
years government needs
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
years trying would-be
Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.
years whales two
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way. Will Cuppy
years bird wrens
The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
years laughing done
I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable, i'll just watch and sadly laugh along. Will Ferrell
years two three
I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years. Whitfield Diffie
years fishing three
I'd rather go fishing for three years. Whitey Herzog
years laughing hundred
I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred. Sarah Rees Brennan
years office personality
The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault. Sarah Palin
years gone red
I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat. Sarah Chalke
years challenges four
I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful. Sarah Brightman
years identity crisis
Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old. Sara Zarr
years week happens
No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.
years choices once-upon-a-time
Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago. Sarah Ban Breathnach
years ideas moments
Let us each grasp a new idea this year. Let us grasp the awareness of what it is that makes us truly happy. Let us consider our personal preferences and learn how to recognize, then embrace, moments of happiness that are uniquely our own.
years fax-machines firsts
My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years. Sara Blakely
years way firsts
Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.
years firsts revenue
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
years polaroids clear
You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.
years islam doe
Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise. Samuel P. Huntington
years progress next-year
The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited. William Feather
years san-francisco answers
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. William F. Buckley, Jr.
years would-be desert
We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.
years
Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible. William Faulkner
years clouds vision
The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead. Willard Scott
years two roots
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years. Wietse Venema