Quotes About Years

I don't know when reading books became the most essential thing about me, but it happened over the years and I found myself the most willing servant of what I considered a rich habit.

A new novel awaits my arrival, prepares for my careful inspection. Yet a novel is always a long dream that lives in me for years before I know where to go to hunt it out.

Now, I had lived in New York for many, many years; and no one had ever yet rung my doorbell to warn me against the emotional sickness of worry—an illness that, during the same time period, had caused ten thousand times more damage than smallpox.

The man was no stranger to deception, and yet his heart was pounding wildly now. He took another deep, throbbing breath. You've been deceiving people for years, he reminded himself. It's what you do.

For a thousand years," Langdon continued, "legends of this secret have been passed on. The entire collection of documents, its power, and the secret it reveals have become known by a single name—Sangreal.

How do you suppose time works? A slippery succession of long hours adding up to ever-shorter days and years that disappear like falling dominoes?

For years we had the persistent sensation in our life and art - John Updike's phrase - that we were just beginning.

To conclude: having staid near four mouths in Hamburgh, I came from thence over land to the Hague, where I embarked in the packet, and arrived in London the tenth of January 1705, having been gone from England ten years and nine months.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

It is pain that ages us, not years.

I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

People who have the most birthdays live the longest.

She was born in the year of our Lord only knows. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Over the years he seemed to have shrunk, trying to make himself invisible to Ivy, or maybe to God.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

What is wisdom? It is an application of experience to present problems, a view of the part in the light of the whole, a perspective of the moment in the vista of years past and years to come.