Quotes about years
years world hours
The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising. David Levithan
years paper written
How do you commemorate a year? A paper anniversary, but we are the words written down, not the paper.
years two-year-olds three
Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.' David Letterman
years earth-day today
Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons.
years organization white
The White House has announced that they no longer recognize Fox as a news organization, which puts them about eight years behind the rest of us.
years house care
In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care. Doc Hastings
years six lifetime
In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.
years mountain old-time
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. Dolly Parton
years littles bits
I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.
years two screw-ups
Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
years people age
I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'
years people paid
If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.
years oysters cocktails
It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
years europe world
Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.
years play trying
I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
years people shining
I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.
years play evil
I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'
years people want
I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.
years littles way
I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.
years names catholic
I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name. Dinesh D'Souza
years criminals death-penalty
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.
years hatred honor
I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness. Dick Gephardt
years president agendas
Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events. Dick Morris
years people three
The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people watching TV as did 20 years ago, politicians have responded by buying three times as many ads, driving the cost of campaigning to levels which only favored candidates can afford.
years numbers voting
The Hispanic population grew by 4.7 percent last year, while blacks expanded by 1.5 percent and whites by a paltry 0.3 percent. Hispanics cast 6 percent of the vote in 1990 and 12 percent in 2000. If their numbers expand at the current pace, they will be up to 18 percent in 2010 and 24 percent in 2020. With one-third of Hispanics voting Republican, they are the jump ball in American politics. As this vote goes, so goes the future.
years two eight
I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life Devon Aoki
years two generations
Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four years, both should shut down and Massachusetts should finally end all reliance on conventional coal generation. Deval Patrick
years land racism
I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth, I cannot vote. Desmond Tutu
years knowing people
Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.
years league age
You just get better with age. You learn yourself and the league. I'm starting to understand more about hitting every year. Derrek Lee
years practice stories
Everyone who became great at something has a similar story: For years, they worked on their craft every day, even if they weren’t in the mood. Always pushing, practicing, working, and improvingYes it takes thousands of hours of practice, but that’s good news! It’s a clear path and it’s under your control. Derek Sivers
years littles youth
How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives. Delmore Schwartz
years ninety-eight atoms
The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year. Deepak Chopra