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Quotes About Years

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.
~ Maurice Jarre
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.
~ William Butler Yeats
And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.
~ E L Doctorow
He was a stranger in our family, even after all those years. WHEN
~ E. Lockhart
As is Man to the Universe, so was the mind of Mr. Wilcox to the minds of some men — a concentrated light upon a tiny spot, a little Ten Minutes moving self-contained through its appointed years. No Pagan he, who lives for the Now, and may be wiser than all philosophers. He lived for the five minutes that have past, and the five to come; he had the business mind.
~ E.M. Forster
Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife The years from off your life, my friend! The years that death takes off my life, He'll take from off the other end!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
~ Edward Abbey
Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her time, through space, through the concatenate cells of her unfolding self. Where to now, Abbzug? You're twenty-eight and a half years old, Abbzug. 
~ Edward Abbey
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years.
~ Anonymous
Old and stricken in years.
~ Anonymous
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.And the seven thin and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
~ Anonymous
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years.
~ Anonymous
Anno aetatis suae… [In the year of his age].
~ Anonymous: Latin
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.
~ Anthony Brandt
the dreams had ceased coming, as they often did, retreating somewhere else for years, until another event of sufficient significance neared, and the patterns of circumstance dragged them to the surface again.
~ Anthony Doerr
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
~ Anthony Holden
Comey is an extraordinarily gifted man who has contributed much during his many years of public service.
~ William Barr
We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical.
~ Greg Ginn
I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
~ Andrew Vachss
I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.'
~ Clint Eastwood
A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band in 1963. I was 19 years old.
~ Frank Sinatra Jr.
My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
~ Natalie du Toit
I've learned over the years to hear what Putin is railing against in his own railing way.
~ Masha Gessen
I really think, Charlotte Flair, come on, her legacy is going to be cemented throughout the years. That's just a given!
~ Booker T