Years Quotes
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Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?
Dale Bumpers -
I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.
Sarah Dessen
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It seemed she was in a cathedral—if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone.
Laini Taylor -
I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.
Rachel Hoffman -
Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.
George Clooney -
Inbound and outbound, I'm looking at probably the best environment I have seen in years.
Carsten Spohr -
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Adrian Anthony Gill -
Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard.
Alger Hiss
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Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.
Dahlia Lithwick -
On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.
Dahlia Lithwick -
Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.
Umberto Eco -
I've had the same friends I've always had. I mean, I've lost a few over the years.
Aaron Bruno -
Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.
Anderson Cooper
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I don't like to get things during the year, .. I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may see something that I'll say, 'I'd really like that for my birthday.' I like to have things to look forward to.
Dakota Fanning -
Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.
W. P. Kinsella -
I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.
Ziggy Marley -
I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.
Barack Obama -
When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.
M. F. K. Fisher
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I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.
Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra -
I've had the same car for five years - it's a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It's very Austin Powers.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.
Walter Mischel -
So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
William Adams The Black Eyed Peas