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Quotes About Years

As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!'
~ Jeff Lynne
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
~ Abdelaziz Bouteflika
For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really consigned to something trivial.
~ A'Lelia Bundles
I seek individual investments that will allow me to target total portfolio returns of at least 20% annually after fees and expenses on an annual basis over a period of years, not months.
~ Michael Burry
Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
~ Liam Neeson
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
~ Alexei Sayle
Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.
~ Theodor Herzl
We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
~ Rowan Atkinson
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
~ George Pierce Baker
Actually, after many years on the campaign trail, there is not a particular food that I've come across that I would avoid.
~ Jill Biden
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.
~ Megan Park
I think, even when I was little, there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist. My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.
~ Condola Rashad
You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.
~ Mike White
Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.
~ Azim Premji
As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.
~ James Ellroy
The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.
~ Bill Toomey
It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
~ Jack Black
In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
~ Andrzej Wajda
I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
Statutory authority to improve fuel economy has existed for 35 years at the Transportation Department, and it still exists today.
~ Lisa Murkowski
Saints, even the female ones, are safe with the written word. It's the rest of us who've caused so much concern over so many years.
~ Stefan Bollmann
Come home, come home, you million ghosts, The honest years shall make amends, The sun and moon shall be your hosts, The everlasting hills your friends.
~ Stella Benson