Years Quotes - page 5

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. (Emily Dickinson)
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Youth is something very new twenty years ago, no one mentioned it. View quote
Coco Chanel
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. View quote
Lenny Bruce
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married? View quote
Barbra Streisand
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? View quote
Marie Antoinette
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Greatness The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach us much the days never knew. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. (Stendhal)
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. View quote
Stendhal
Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. View quote
Luis Buñuel
There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business. View quote
Bill Gates
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. View quote
Lysander Spooner
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. View quote
Ray Charles
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. View quote
Thomas Sowell
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. View quote
Henri Matisse
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. View quote
Pablo Picasso
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. View quote
Spike Milligan
Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years. (Anthony Powell)
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. View quote
Mark Twain
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years. View quote
Pierre Corneille