Quotes About Years

women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.

I do not want you to miss your sister's wedding," I told him. It was only days away. "Nor do I wish to prolong our goodbye. Let's say farewell here in the place where we've spent these eleven years together.

REMEMBER THE IMPOSSIBLE eventfulness of time, transformation and emotion packed like gunpowder into the barrel. Remember the dilation and diffusion, the years within days. Theirs were endless; lives flowered and died between waking and noon.

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians.

From the narrow two-story shop, smoke curled out a crooked brick chimney, its mortar mostly crumbled away—as if it had stood leaning forward to watch the invasions and victory marches and funeral processions of two, maybe three hundred years.

Of course it was all just whistling in the dark, but sometimes she would conclude by saying that despite their clumsy grief and all the lost and puzzling years that still lay ahead of them, the earth was no less beautiful.

Se le acabaron los años».

Perhaps we should always say that instead of 'old'. How gone are you? I'm thirty years gone.

According to Taoist belief, any fox that attains fifty years of age can shape-shift into a standard human.

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.

Well, you know what they say about motherhood," Penelope said. " 'They'?" Daphne murmured. Penelope paused just long enough to shoot her a wry grin. "The years fly by, and the days are endless.

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.

I always love stories that do a big time leap where the past informs the present, where you find out what became of some characters years later.

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.

I was lucky to get good coaches and infrastructure that I needed. To become a champion, it is not just a few months' practice: it takes years to make a champion.

I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.

Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.

It's not nice to be called a nutter, because it dismisses the input I've had into my own destiny over the years.

My mom worked for Lockheed Corp. in Burbank as an inspector of airplane parts. To help make ends meet, Dee, a friend of my mom's from Lockheed, moved in. She was a lovely person and helped with our care for many years.

The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

I've killed way more people than Kaczynski, because I've been paying a lot of taxes in the last fifteen years, and he hasn't.

Entonces descubrí lo que no sabía, que estaba infinitamente cansado, que me importaba un carajo el honor, que me daba lo mismo la impunidad que el castigo, y que la venganza era demasiada carga para mis años.

He estado prisionero durante toda mi vida de una pasión que no me poseía. Como un perro ladra a la luna, me ha fascinado un reflejo. ¡Despertarse a los sesenta y ocho años! ¡Renacer en el momento de morir! Que se me concedan algunos años, aún, algunos meses, algunas semanas...