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Quotes About Years

Ah, no; the years, the years;Down their chiseled names the raindrop plows.
~ Thomas Hardy
So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears,...
~ Thomas Hood
All her years of maturity had been devoted either to distorting or side-stepping the less agreeable facts motivating her self-indulgent conduct.
~ Thorne Smith
It's not how many years you've got. It's how you use them.
~ Tim Drake
Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.
~ Don Nickles
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I want to live a normal life that I never had the opportunity to do for many years.
~ Fernando Alonso
I met my wife in Latvia 17 or 18 years ago, moved over to Norway in 2003 or 2004 and after a couple of years living there, I was able to represent Norway as a snooker player.
~ Kurt Maflin
Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.
~ Harvey Weinstein
I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
As the years have passed I have kept growing and I notice the affection from the fans even more. I have always seen myself in Barcelona and my dream is to retire here.
~ Jordi Alba
I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.
~ Roxane Gay
Several nutrition companies have approached me over the years to endorse a number of different products. Some worked; some didn't - so I decided to create my own brand.
~ Chuck Liddell
I was just 29 years old when I first took an oath in this Capitol to serve the people of this great state.
~ Tate Reeves
As a documentary filmmaker, 'Meru' was an irresistible challenge. You can spend years searching for the right story, but this one had all the elements: the obstacles, the characters, and the drama.
~ Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
But years ago I had known the river when it flowed through this now dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains with the waters of memory.
~ Norman Maclean
And since your brainstem can't tell time, or know that many years have passed, it activates the stress response and you have a full-blown threat response. You feel and act as if you are under attack. Your brainstem can't say, 'Hey, don't get so stirred up, Korea was thirty years ago. That sound was simply a motorcycle backfiring.
~ Oprah Winfrey
it was one of those revolutionary gestures that you laugh about years later, when you're remembering the good old days when you were political.
~ Orhan Pamuk
I'm saying this to you as someone who's spent years as a political exile. Listen to me: Life's not about principles, it's about happiness.
~ Orhan Pamuk
In certain miserable workshops, as in certain miserable families, everyone speaks in a different voice for years without acknowledging that happiness is born of harmony, and that as a matter of course, harmony becomes happiness.
~ Orhan Pamuk
LADY BRACKNELL Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now.
~ Oscar Wilde
His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Commend him gently, whom the wrath he suckled at his heart has wasted more than years.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She patted his hand. Gnarled, ropescarred, speckled from the sun and the years of it. The ropy veins that bound them to his heart. There was map enough for men to read. There God's plenty of signs and wonders to make a landscape. To make a world.
~ Cormac McCarthy