--- title: "12 Years Better Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 12 Years Better quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Years Better sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a74/barack-obama-17_america_america-we-are-better-than-these-last-ei_2348141.jpg" --- > [America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/america-we-are-better-than-these-last-eight-years-we-are-a-better/) [Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a74/barack-obama-17_america_america-we-are-better-than-these-last-ei_2348141.jpg) > [If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sade-adu/if-you-re-only-making-an-album-every-10-years-it-better-be-good/) [Sade Adu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sade-adu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42c/sade-adu-15455_albums_if-you-re-only-making-an-album-every-10_1497843.jpg) > [If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teemu-selanne/if-they-can-play-eight-more-years-then-i-can-too-i-m-in-better-shape/) [Teemu Selanne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teemu-selanne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/675/teemu-selanne-49744_better_if-they-can-play-eight-more-years-then-i_94509.png) > [A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mignon-mclaughlin/a-love-that-lasts-for-twenty-years-may-be-better-than-love-but-it-isn/) [Mignon McLaughlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mignon-mclaughlin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24d/mignon-mclaughlin-742_lasts_a-love-that-lasts-for-twenty-years-may-b_2125400.png) > [I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-nagel/i-tell-my-students-if-you-are-going-to-spend-days-and-months-and/) [Susan Nagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-nagel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70f/susan-nagel-65041_education_i-tell-my-students-if-you-are-going-to-s_267132.jpg) > [After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyra-sedgwick/after-14-years-it-better-be-a-real-marriage-you-know-we-do-have-a/) [Kyra Sedgwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyra-sedgwick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/873/kyra-sedgwick-15473_lucky_after-14-years-it-better-be-a-real-marri_2463331.jpg) > [General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harlow-curtice/general-motors-has-no-bad-years-only-good-years-and-better-years/) [Harlow Curtice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harlow-curtice/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60e/harlow-curtice-107566_bad-years_general-motors-has-no-bad-years-only-goo_3070839.jpg) > [It can take you days, months, even years to better your life but it only takes a second for you to ruin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-can-take-you-days-months-even-years-to-better-your-life-but-it/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/115/anonymous-1_better-life_it-can-take-you-days-months-even-years-t_2904389.jpg) > [Over the years, you get better at timing because you've been through the situations thousands of times. The ball goes over your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-boateng/over-the-years-you-get-better-at-timing-because-you-ve-been-through/) [Jerome Boateng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-boateng/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/704/jerome-boateng-8344_better_over-the-years-you-get-better-at-timing_2587961.jpg) > [We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deloss-dodds/we-re-going-to-have-good-years-again-our-bad-years-are-not-that-bad/) [DeLoss Dodds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deloss-dodds/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b11/deloss-dodds-78806_bad-years_we-re-going-to-have-good-years-again-our_3099690.jpg) > [I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-messi/i-have-many-years-to-get-better-and-better-and-that-has-to-be-my/) [Lionel Messi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-messi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41c/lionel-messi-4898_ambition_i-have-many-years-to-get-better-and-bett_2656966.jpg) > [During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/during-the-last-17-years-i-have-been-working-at-the-restoration-of-a/) [Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c0/wendell-berry-236_exhausted_during-the-last-17-years-i-have-been-wor_1779.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/years-better/#itemlist", "name": "Years Better Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "America, we are better than these last eight years. 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