Years Quotes · Page 200

It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for 18 years.

— Denzel Washington

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

— William Godwin

I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.

— Groucho Marx

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

— Suge Knight

Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

— Jay Leno

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

— Steven Sebring

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

— James McGreevey

Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you…

— Douglas Coupland

You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was…

— Gayle Forman

Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than…

— Jeff Bingaman

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or…

— Jasper Fforde

I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I…

— Steven Wright

I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to…

— Teri Polo

Coal used to be a very dirty fuel but coal has become cleaner and cleaner over the decades. Clean coal now is…

— Lawrence Solomon

I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more…

— Quincy Jones

Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it…

— Junot Diaz

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I…

— Hunter Hayes

What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have…

— Timothy Hutton

We also share a profound desire for a lasting peace in the Middle East. My Administration is dedicated to achieving this goal,…

— George H. W. Bush

“Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did…

— J.D. Stroube

I get more gratification out of getting some obese person who had a heart attack running around and enjoying life within a…

— Arthur Lydiard

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

— Thomas Browne

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

— Alexander Pope

My work from the last 25 years has been asking people to see differently.

— Nancy Burson

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

— Tipu Sultan

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

— Richard P. Feynman

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

— Louis Leakey

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. (on soccer in the United States)

— Landon Donovan

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

— Karl Lagerfeld

The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM.

— Paul Volcker

O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

— Madame de Stael

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

— Larry Ellison

A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.

— Emily Dickinson

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.

— Shawn Johnson

I started my band when I was 13 years old. We were a real band.

— Matty Healy

I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.

— William J. Clinton

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

— Barry Sonnenfeld