Quotes About Years
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
~ Elinor Hoyt Wylie
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,Ere the sorrow comes with years?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Thy William went willing, Kit. Even though thou didst retrieve him-mad poets, the both of you-the debt is paid for seven times seven years.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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Years of practice kept the ironic tinge from her voice.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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I shall reclaim the bird sooner or later, sweet William." "Aye," Will said. "But not until ravens flocks these grounds again. Do we have an agreement, my lady?" She bit her lip, ignoring the Mebd's arch amusement. "He's hidden from me for a thousand years," Morgan le Fey said at last, acquiesing. Her hand slid gracefully down to rest on her thigh, cupped inward, palm open. "A few days mean nothing.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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The sorceress offered him a bittersweet smile, and he knew that what she gave herself was not just peace, but a suitable sort of vengeance after all these years.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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It had been a summery morning near the spring solstice, two hundred and seven years previous to meeting the Grey Wolf in a dark alley under the curve of the Tower.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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Peace, pussycat." There was-Christ-pride in Baines' voice; the tone was enough to make Kit wish he had something in his gut to vomit. "I'd rather burn a cathedral than see thee come to any lasting harm. What a waste of eighteen years' work that would be.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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she knew what such grief was like and she had built her own defenses high over the years. But if you raised them too much, they became a prison and in the end you drowned with no one to hear you scream.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
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What a dimple! It was years since Mère Madeleine had set eyes on a child, though she had prayed for them so unceasingly.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
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Marine ecosystems effectively collapsed, and they remained in that state for at least half a million, and perhaps as many as several million, years. (The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.")
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
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since the Antarctic palms of the Eocene, some fifty million years ago.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
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I stumbled away. I pressed the back of my hand to my mouth and just looked at him. "What was that?" His chest rose and fell heavily. "A kiss." "Why?" "Why?" He laughed. His blue eyes suddenly looked so sad. "Because I've wanted to do that for twenty years.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
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I lean over and touch the grass instead. I have not felt grass in years. Ray doesn't like me getting dirty. It doesn't feel like much of anything, and I am oddly disappointed, like when the soap operas are taken off so someone important in a tie can talk about things that don't matter because they will never reach me. Ray has me wrapped up tight from the world.
~ Elizabeth Scott
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society's been drugging its women for years
~ Elizabeth Strout
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He had died on his bed, the same bed that my father had died on many years earlier.
~ Elizabeth Strout
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The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
~ Arthur Henderson
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The work Aquinas did in the next sixteen years changed the face of Western Christianity and philosophy.
~ Arthur Herman
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We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.
~ Arthur Stanley Eddington
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You make a pact with life and death: so many years as a king, and then...Say what you will, dirty money spends as green as clean.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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tal vez la seguridad, de una existencia serena para el resto de sus años. Sin embargo, el sentimiento vuelve a estar
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Renouncing life's years is renouncing own life itself.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Several years later, after the Freedom of Information Act was passed, it was revealed that Cotton had been working undercover for the police.
~ Assata Shakur
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He'd been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.
~ B.J. Daniels
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