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Quotes About Years

The Earth thus started off with vast supplies of heat inside it, and a rocky planet, like any other rock, takes a long time to cool down. Stones in a campfire may still be hot the morning after; a stone the size of the Earth can hold heat for billions of years.
~ Bill Bryson
space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes it sound.
~ Bill Bryson
we should have a definitive total for insects in a little over fifteen thousand years.
~ Bill Bryson
who had drowned in Greece nearly thirty years before.
~ Bill Bryson
approval from the Senate four years
~ Bill Clinton
David Thompson was … The most underrated superstar of the past thirty-five years The single biggest NBA tragedy other than Lenny Bias
~ Bill Simmons
She'd lived with the situation for years and she hoped, but did not pray, that she had several more years. Unfortunately, she was a realist and she knew time cared as little for her hopes as it would for her prayers.
~ Bob Mayer
He was at MIT for 42 years or something. He was a great—so I understand that stuff. You know, genetically.
~ Bob Woodward
Harvath had met and worked with over his years in both the SEALs and the Secret Service. Harvath stood up and started moving toward the front of the cabin.
~ Brad Thor
According to the second system I have given the years names like 'The Year I named the Constellations' and 'The Year I counted and named the Dead'. I like this much more. It gives each year a character of its own. This is the system I shall use going forward.
~ Susanna Clarke
He sported this style in the early war years. Years of uncertainty. When he didn't know if the war was right when it could be said he didn't always know which side he was on not because he was a stupid man but because it was sometimes not 2 different sides at all but one great side surging toward something beyond either Northern or Southern.
~ Suzan-Lori Parks
Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.
~ Sylvia Plath
Sovegna vos. Here are the years that walk between, bearing Away the fiddles and the flutes, restoring One who moves in the time between sleep and waking, wearing White light folded, sheathed about her, folded. The new years walk, restoring Through a bright cloud of tears, the years, restoring With a new verse the ancient rhyme. Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.
~ T.S. Eliot
The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
~ T.S. Eliot
Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, "God, wasn't it wonderful?"
~ Julie Andrews
Per anni l'aveva rispettato; forse, pensava, anche amato, di quell'amore senza fuoco che si distribuisce in parti uguali ai diversi membri della propria famiglia.»
~ Julien Green
Había transcurrido tanto tiempo desde entonces, había acumulado tanto olvido en mi mirada que ya apenas podía ver las huellas que, en su rostro, el paso de los años había ido dejando.
~ Julio Llamazares
Pasé muchos años en Europa, durante los cuales mi pasión musical creció, se diversificó, se afinó, hasta que finalmente, si no se extinguió, alcanzó una moderada quietud, a medio camino entre el deber y el aburrimiento. Probablemente ése sea el destino de todas las pasiones.
~ Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Never had the opportunity in her first lost childhood; and in the intervening years her desire for it had doubled over and doubled over like a katana being forged until finally it was sharper than the truth.
~ Junot Diaz
These were the early Clinton years but the economy was still sucking an eighties cock...
~ Junot Diaz
The sensation reminded him of a time many years ago when, just a boy, he'd been sick with a high fever, and after the fever had broken how just being up and about made even ordinary things seem charged with a fresh vitality.
~ Justin Cronin
I guess crushes that have lasted for years don't go away that easily.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?
~ Kamila Shamsie
The intolerance of people against other people is growing and growing. And the thing is, this is not anything that's changed. This has been going on for years.
~ Dennis Haysbert