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Quotes About Years

And as much as I may have joked about Star Wars over the years, I liked that I was in those films. Particularly as the only girl in an all-boy fantasy.
~ Carrie Fisher
As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.
~ George J. Mitchell
they did not fight for a Britain where to hold by truths and values which have been thought good and worthy for a thousand years would be to run the risk of being called "fascist
~ George MacDonald Fraser
You think my life is such a precious thing to me, that I would trade my honor for a few more years, of what?
~ George R. R. Martin
It seemed as he had been falling for years. Fly, a voice whispered in the darkness, but Bran did not know how to fly, so all he could do was fall.
~ George R.R. Martin
Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.
~ George R.R. Martin
He had lived his lies for fourteen years, yet they still haunted him at night.
~ George R.R. Martin
The man had looked directly at the camera, making a connection she could feel through the years that separated them. He had his arm around the woman, and his smile was a beacon of happiness he plainly wanted the world to see. The woman had her arm around the man's waist. She was gazing up at him, her joy so complete and intimate that being a witness almost seemed an invasion of her privacy.
~ Georgia Bockoven
And a popular priest, Father Dyonisy Juricev, wrote in a leading newspaper that it was no longer a sin to kill Serbs or Jews so long as they were at least seven years old.
~ Gerald Posner
Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains.
~ Paul Whiteman
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
~ Paul W. Litchfield
Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
~ Bible
Age 65. — I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be fifty-two. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.
~ James Thurber, 1960
We count by years, but we live by days.
~ Ivan Doig
moments, they just sat and stared at the treasure. In all his years out West, Clint had heard of thousands of buried treasures, many of them reputed to be left by the Spaniards.
~ J.R. Roberts
How old are you?" "Eighteen years out of my transition. You?" He raised his cocktail glass. "Three hundred fifty-eight years and two months." "Not even middle-aged." "No." He smiled. "Not old. Now, if we were humans, this would be inappropriate." "Well, you would be dead. So yes, necrophilia is creepy.
~ J.R. Ward
In love," Minnie echoed as she took one of each of their hands. "You know, love is the greatest gift the Scribe Virgin bestowed on her species. I'm happy to see it in this house again. Rhysland and I had so many years of it together here.
~ J.R. Ward
I wandered all these years among A world of women, seeking you.
~ Jack London
In years and years not one of them has been in contact with a good woman, or within the influence, or redemption, which irresistibly radiates from such a creature.  There
~ Jack London
By the middle of the century, retirement culture - exemplified by timeshares in Florida, the golf industry, and AARP membership - was booming. Americans, it turned out, were pretty good at figuring out how not to do anything in their twilight years.
~ Mary Pilon
I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.
~ Amanda Knox
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.
~ Lawrence Summers
No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.
~ Pete Rose
I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
~ Pam Dawber