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Quotes About Years

He will love this music to death. In a few more years, he'll snort at its sentiment and mock its stirring progressions. Once you've loved like that, the only safe haven is resentment.
~ Richard Powers
There's a story he always loved, from the days when his legs still worked. Aliens land on Earth. They operate on a different scale of time. They zip around so fast that human seconds seem to them as tree years seem to humans. He can't remember how the story ends. It doesn't matter. Every branch's tip has its own new bud.
~ Richard Powers
She looks like someone summoned to help the most wondrous products of four billion years of life.
~ Richard Powers
Best to avoid morbid thoughts, Ursula counselled, advice that would stand him in good stead for the next three years. For the rest of his life, in fact.
~ Kate Atkinson
I meant skies all empty aching blue. I meant years. I meant all of them with you.
~ Kate Clanchy
John softened, and many years later he said to me, "You know, if we were ever to divorce, I get the cat." There is a
~ Katherine Paterson
Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy splendid banner emblazoned be. Now to thy golden talons Homage we're bringing. Guiding symbol of our hopes and fears Hark to the cries of eternal praises ringing Long may we triumph in the coming years. - The Owls of St. Aegolius
~ Kathryn Lasky
Jesus isn't gonna help me with a teenager, Lisa. He was good with lepers and whores and blind people, but he can't cure the smart ass years and you know it.
~ Kathy Hepinstall
One thing I have witnessed is that public life can change people unrecognizably in a few short years.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I was wondering, princess. Could it be our love would never have grown so strong down the years had the mist not robbed us the way it did? Perhaps it allowed old wounds to heal.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Abiding love that has endured the years—that we see only rarely. When we do, we're only too glad to ferry the couple together.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
For they found they became oddly uncomfortable whenever the topic was broached, and before long an understanding had grown between them, in the silent way understandings do between a husband and wife of many years, to avoid the subject as much as possible. I say "as much as possible," for there appeared at times to be a need—a compulsion, you might say—to which one or the other would have to yield.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
When my own time comes, will I too long for the sea? I think I will be content enough with the soil. And I will not demand the exact spot, but let it be within this country Horace and I have spent the years roaming contentedly.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Me deleitaría si pudiese, honorable Axl, porque será una venganza justa. Pero me debilitan los años pasados entre vosotros, y por mucho que lo intente, una parte de mí da la espalda a las llamas del odio
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!
~ Adolf Hitler
She had conquered them, as she would conquer so many in the years to come, by goodness rather than strength. It is a sorrowfully rare strategem.
~ William Napier
Amazing- the years of political correctness pumped out of our colleges became an education of national guilt.
~ William R. Forstchen
That reverend vice, that gray iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years.
~ William Shakespeare
Still question'd me the story of my lifeFrom year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunesThat I have pass'd.
~ William Shakespeare
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees.
~ William Wordsworth
It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.
~ Wilson Rawls
Ah, in those revolutionary years even women were revolutionized into lunatics and monsters.
~ xingjian gao ii
Some years ago a prayer was read from the pulpit in every church in Greece, asking the Almighty to spare the Greeks from the 'scourge' of foreign tourism. When
~ David Ogilvy
Alan A. Berryman addressed it some years ago in a paper titled "The Theory and Classification of Outbreaks.
~ David Quammen