Quotes about years
years unfinished-work liberty
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history. Xavier Becerra
years role-models lasts
To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years. Xavi
years lasts midfielders
In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen - the most complete - is SCHOLES Xavi
years able
It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it. Wynonna Judd
years three four
I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago. Wyclef Jean
years office president
I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe. Wyclef Jean
years listening jazz
When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year. Wynton Marsalis
years play four
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music. Wynton Marsalis
years two hearing
Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley. Wolfman Jack
years cities citizens
Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need for places to pray. Wolfgang Schauble
years outcast raised
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. Willie Stargell
years church firsts
The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite. Willie Nelson
years three hay
It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic. William Petty
years looks gaps
At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new. William Makepeace Thackeray
years practice medical
Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years Yehudi Menuhin
years feet eight
The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year. There´s no sign of growth. Not even a hint. The same thing happens - or doesn´t happen - the second year. And then the third year. The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year, but nothing shows. No growth. No anything. For eight years it can continue. Eight years! Then - after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it - the bamboo tree suddenly sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months! Zig Ziglar
years games looks
There's no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come! Zig Ziglar
years people black
I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the way they were representing black people over and over and over again in the same way. Zoe Kravitz
years two lucky
I feel lucky to receive such critical attention and praise when you're in a show that's going to last a month, it's just easier when audiences are more receptive. I've done two new shows this year, so I'm always excited to work on something a little older, traditional and structured. Zoe Kazan
years people three
I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Zinedine Zidane
years issues weak
For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure. Zell Miller
years feelings want
And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now. Zelda Fitzgerald
years mind body
Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace? Zelda Fitzgerald
years people historical
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle. Zadie Smith