Years Quotes - page 98

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there. (Harri Holkeri)
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States. View quote
Harri Holkeri
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted. View quote
Harry Frankfurt
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years. View quote
Harry Shearer
Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges. (Hassanal Bolkiah)
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation. View quote
Hector Elizondo
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all. View quote
Helen Dunmore
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world. View quote
Iain McGilchrist
In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded. View quote
Ike Skelton
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone. View quote
Ike Turner
So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums. View quote
Ikue Mori
I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing. View quote
Illeana Douglas
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that? View quote
Imelda Staunton
In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking. View quote
Irvin Kershner
I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be. (Ivan Lendl)
It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters. View quote
Ivan Reitman
I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me. View quote
Iyanla Vanzant
We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year. View quote
Izabella Scorupco
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.' View quote
James Keller