Years Quotes
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The Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them.
Herodotus
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I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.
Homaro Cantu
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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo
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I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
Walter Besant
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I appreciate the years I have spent at SFX and am looking forward to a positive working relationship moving forward.
Arn Tellem
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The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.
James Martineau
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I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.
Boy George Culture Club
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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.
Dolly Parton
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Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?
Jennifer Donnelly
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The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.
M. F. K. Fisher
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I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.
James Mercer Broken Bells
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I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.
R. A. Torrey
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Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.
Angela Thirkell
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I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.
Hal Higdon
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A lot of times I go to the gym and I see people and they don't know how to work out. There's no routine or anything like that. I saw a guy who I haven't seen in five years and the guy looks the same as he did five years ago.
Andre Reed
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It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
Morley Safer
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For 42 years, I worked nonstop from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., day in and day out.
Stewart Rahr
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I did the best I could for six years, ... and if they can't appreciate that ...
Chamique Holdsclaw
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Personally, it’s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and you’re not gonna leave your...whatever!
Gabourey Sidibe
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A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.
Bill Burr
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So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it has been for years - that's not a shock. Democratic beliefs to the contrary are probably wishful thinking.
Byron York
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It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.
Carlos Moya
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What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
Freddie Mercury Queen