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Quotes About Years

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
~ Stendhal
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.
~ William C. Bryant
After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.
~ Bernardo Bertolucci
In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.
~ Marcel Proust
If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his sterling performance in the last six years.
~ Orji Uzor Kalu
I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.
~ Danny Wallace
For the first time in a very many years, he felt the old vexation, the mingled impatience and pleasure at the world's beautiful refusal to yield up its mysteries without a fight.
~ Michael Chabon
Working homicide for so many years, Bosch could not be surprised anymore by the horrors people inflicted on each other. But the horrors people saved for themselves were a different story.
~ Michael Connelly
But you find—surprise—that you like this capitulation from her, this helpless acceding, from the most recent embodiment of all the girls over all the years who've given you nothing, not even a curious glance. Welcome to the darker side of love.
~ Michael Cunningham
In eight years alone—2010–2018—the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration collected enough material to make 160 nuclear bombs.
~ Michael Lewis
'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.
~ Jason Aaron
Henley's one of my favorite singers. I've maintained a friendship with Don over the years.
~ Steve Lukather
I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.
~ Alex Lowe
Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.
~ Jason Gann
The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.
~ Lawrence Welk
At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.
~ Mark Millar
During my early skating years, there were not many ice rinks in Korea, and even the few rinks that existed, most of them were public.
~ Kim Yuna
People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.
~ Travis Fimmel
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
~ Paddy Ashdown
He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.
~ Dan Fogelberg
As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
~ Kevin Spacey
I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.
~ George MacDonald
This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.
~ Gregoire Akcelrod
You'd think after seven years of riding, I'd have you broken in by now.' She licked him intimately.
~ Beverly Barton