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Quotes About Years

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.
~ John Steinbeck
Alexandra's fat bare toes, corned and bent by years in shoes shaped by men's desires and cruel notions of beauty
~ John Updike
For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.
~ James Patterson
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
~ John P. Marquand
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
~ Tim Burton
My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
~ Kojo Annan
A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.
~ Kim Edwards
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
~ Sam Neill
The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.
~ Wilson Mizner
It isn't how many years one spends on earth that matters, but the legacy left from your many years.
~ Unknown
And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away
~ Jimmy Buffet
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It is very strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
~ Unknown
Life is made up of Moments. Moments create Days, days create Months, months create Years, years create LIFE. Lose the Moment and you lose Life.
~ Unknown
Its important to put a lot of years into your life, but equally important to put a lot of life into your years.
~ Unknown
The very same substance, yet destined to have completely different effects on me. The same illness can evolve; and a sweet poison comes to be less tolerated when, with the years, the heart's resistance has weakened.
~ Marcel Proust
the memory of a certain image is only regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.
~ Marcel Proust
E com essa intermitente grosseria que lhe voltava logo que ele não mais sofria e que rebaixava o nível de seu caráter moral, exclamou consigo mesmo: "E dizer que eu estraguei anos inteiros de minha vida, que desejei a morte, que tive o meu maior amor, por uma mulher que não me agradava, que não era o meu tipo!".
~ Marcel Proust
It is true that these changes have occurred to us without our being aware of them; but the distance between the memory which suddenly returns and our present personality as similarly between two memories of different years and places, is so great that it would suffice, apart from their specific uniqueness, to make comparison between them impossible.
~ Marcel Proust
And with the intermittent coarseness that reappeared in him as soon as he was no longer unhappy and the level of his morality dropped accordingly, he exclaimed to himself: "To think that I wasted years of my life, that I wanted to die, that I felt my deepest love, for a woman who did not appeal to me, who was not my type!
~ Marcel Proust
her family." "And how long have you been a criminalist for the Scientific Investigation Division here in Los Angeles?" "Four years." Gelfer had calmed down now and seemed
~ Marcia Clark
We haven't slept in years. This is an advantage of menopause. Some nights, we meet for coffee at 4:00 a.m.
~ Unknown
Among animals, one has a sense of humor.Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.
~ Marianne Moore
In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.
~ Jonathan Gold