Quotes About Years

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

You are the child of this universe. For you, she was waiting billions of years.

In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.

Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.

Decide. What you want? Life full of years or Years full of life. NOW.

The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years.

Those were the years when I was truly happy. Knowing that is both a blessing and a curse. It's good to acknowledge that you found true happiness in your life - in that sense your life has not been wasted. But to admit that you will never be happy like that again is hard.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.

Lament who will, in fruitless tears, The speed with which our moments fly; I sigh not over vanished years, But watch the years that hasten by.