Years Quotes · Page 190

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years

— Gary Miller

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

— George W. Bush

I've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right, then generally speaking, so am I.

— Maureen Lipman

“If it's not for Him, I guess I'd be dead few years ago.”

— Jestoni Revealed

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

— Brady Anderson

I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.

— Natalie Dormer

These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty…

— Moby

Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if…

— Swami Vivekananda

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

— Emily Dickinson

I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and…

— Pedro Almodovar

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me,…

— Alan Cumming

I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would…

— Nancy Grace

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to…

— Bobby Thomson

No matter who you are, if you have a $30 operating loss, you can carry it forward to the next year. And…

— Rudy Giuliani

I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer kneeling on the floor praying fervently to God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable…

— Eberhard Bethge

I think 'The Book of Mormon' has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It's something that 20 years…

— Josh Gad

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such…

— Brooke Shields

'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did…

— Symeon the New Theologian

My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregnant with me and they…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it…

— Paul Hogan

Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's…

— Peter Ackroyd

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call…

— Ramana Maharshi

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.

— Martina McBride

New York Fashion Week comes only twice a year, make it count

— Tommy Hilfiger

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

— Megan Park

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

— Hideo Kojima

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

— Christina Ricci

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

— Carly Simon

I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

— Ted Turner

The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass.

— Janet Evanovich

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

— Julius Caesar

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

— James Larkin

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

— Cary Fukunaga

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.

— Nora Ephron

In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

— Mary Pipher

Four years ago, who ever thought this would have happened?

— Drew Brees

I was associated with Shaimak Davar for three and a half years and learnt a lot from him.

— Vikrant Massey

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

— William Howard Taft