Years Quotes
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If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?
T. H. White
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I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.
Robin Trower
Procol Harum
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I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.
I. M. Pei
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No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
Albert Ray Olpin
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In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I watched you for years,” she whispered. The tears were drying on her cheeks, and heat was building within her. If he would just touch her. Touch her there. “I watched you and you never saw me.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.
Quincy Jones
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As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!'
Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra
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I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.
Milla Jovovich
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The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs… the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.
Wade Horn
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I think in terms of a career trajectory, it's good for people to be reminded that, in spite of seeing me a million times a day on a show for ten years playing the same character, I'm an actor, and actors like to play different people.
Simon Helberg
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As a comedian, especially one that works as much as I do, there is a lot of sacrifice. People don't see that I'm away from my family 46 weeks out of the year. I miss all the birthdays and anniversaries and holidays.
Gabriel Iglesias
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In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.
Barack Obama
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It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.
David Heinemeier Hansson
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"A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their loved ones and in search of a place to build a better home. The story is set during the turbulent war years in China in the '40s and '50s.
Mabel Cheung
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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I think if you look at almost every year under every president over the last, I don't know, 20, 30 years, you're going to be hard-pressed to find a year in which the majority of Americans thought we were on the right track.
Barack Obama
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I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.
Alessandro Manzoni
