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Quotes About Years

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
~ William Golding
Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?
~ William Habington
Between us lay all the moments when, instead of confiding wholly one in the other and placing our hearts on the line, we had settled for less. Between us lay routine and habit and the taking of one another for granted. Between us lay the years of our marriage. That those years had become a barrier instead of a lovely shared connection was a tragedy,
~ William Lashner
Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel. - Golden Years
~ David Bowie
The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles.
~ David Brewer
Your annuity can be guaranteed (it pays out for an agreed number of years even if you pop your clogs) or not guaranteed (if you go to a better place, the annuity provider keeps all your money).
~ David Craig
Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.
~ David Cronenberg
But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.
~ David Foenkinos
Mais il faut avoir vécu des années dans le rien pour comprendre comment on peut être subitement effrayé par une possibilité.
~ David Foenkinos
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
~ David Hockney
I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.
~ David Hyde Pierce
thirty-three years as the Mortal Messiah.
~ David J. Ridges
New York City hotels have free condoms in the rooms. All these years I've been using the free shower cap.
~ David Letterman
How little we seem able to do in a lifetime—and how fast the years slip by."42
~ David M. Oshinsky
And although those years will not be without trial, they will not lack joy as well. Fleeting as a firefly's burst in the night, but real all the same.
~ David Maine
God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Too slow, the wagons of years, The oxen of days--too glum. Our god is the god of speed, Our heart--our battle-drum.
~ Vladimir Mayakovsky
Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.
~ Sylvia Plath
Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
~ Hosea Ballou
From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave.
~ John Dryden
Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, 'God, wasn't it wonderful.'
~ Julie Andrews
We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
~ Biz Stone
I've been doing makeovers on TV for years and years and years. It's something I really know how to do. I also know personally what it's like to not feel good about yourself.
~ Carson Kressley
Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.
~ Michael Patrick King