Quotes About Milestone

A few years ago, I wrote Battlefield Earth to celebrate my golden anniversary as a writer. At nearly a half-million words, it was a bit larger than others I had turned out in my fifty-year career. But, after all, it was my anniversary so I decided to splurge.

Obama became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter, and only the second since Franklin Roosevelt, to win an outright majority (i.e., more than 50 percent of the electorate).

So I'm your first ever Shadowhunter, huh?" Alec said when they separated at last. "You're my first so many things, Alec Lightwood," Magnus said.

Chapter One The Tipping Day Is it just me, or does everybody have a day in their life like the one I'm about to retell? I'm talking about those days that act like a fulcrum between everything that came before and your brand-new life after. It

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

There are events that divide our life into before and after.

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.

3. CELEBRATE EVERY WIN.

Raymond Chandler's first novel came out at 51.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

The Difference Engine stands—for a replica works today, in the Science Museum in London—as a milestone of what could be achieved in precision engineering. In the composition of its alloys, the exactness of its dimensions, the interchangeability of its parts, nothing surpassed this segment of an unfinished machine. Still, it was a curio. And it was as far as Babbage could go.

And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.

I've made some leaps and bounds as an underground artist.

For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.

My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.

I was so excited for my spot on the Mae Young Classic.

We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.

I always said that I want to sell out Madison Square Garden before I turn 21.

It is always a good feeling to score the first goal in a new stadium.

I played the Azteca Stadium in Mexico to 100,000 people - that's something I never thought I'd do.

This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.

I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.

Honestly, as a rapper, the Freshman list is definitely the biggest milestone. Culture-wise - anything-wise - that's the biggest stamp.

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.