Years Quotes - page 4

I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know. (Brett Favre)
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. View quote
Oscar Wilde
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. View quote
Brendan Behan
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process. View quote
Geddy Lee
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. View quote
George Orwell
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. View quote
Elizabeth Taylor
It takes years to make an overnight success. (Eddie Cantor)
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth. View quote
Grover Cleveland
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. View quote
Herbert Hoover
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. View quote
Jane Austen
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. View quote
Francis Bacon
You have many years to live-do things you will be proud to remember when you're old. View quote
John Brunner
I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. View quote
John Steinbeck
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. (H. G. Wells)
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! View quote
Golda Meir
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. View quote
Oliver North
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. View quote
Helen Rowland
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. View quote
Helen Rowland