--- title: "14 Years Quotes By Bill Bryson" description: "14 Years quotes by Bill Bryson. Plus more from Bill Bryson and more Years sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/bill-bryson-340_absence_coming-back-to-your-native-land-after-an_1396061.jpg" --- > [Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/coming-back-to-your-native-land-after-an-absence-of-many-years-is-a-2/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/bill-bryson-340_absence_coming-back-to-your-native-land-after-an_1396061.jpg) > [After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/after-years-of-patient-study-and-with-cricket-there-can-be-no-other/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/bill-bryson-340_carts_after-years-of-patient-study-and-with-cr_2684861.png) > [... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/it-occurred-to-me-that-never-again-would-he-be-seven-years-one-month/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/bill-bryson-340_moments_it-occurred-to-me-that-never-again-would_1809259.png) > [The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/the-basic-challenge-of-any-book-is-you-know-you-re-going-to-be/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/bill-bryson-340_any_the-basic-challenge-of-any-book-is-you-k_594315.png) > [Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/hunters-will-tell-you-that-a-moose-is-a-wily-and-ferocious-forest/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cf/bill-bryson-340_animals_hunters-will-tell-you-that-a-moose-is-a_3149822.png) > [I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-ordered-a-coffee-and-a-little-something-to-eat-and-savored-the/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a13/bill-bryson-340_backgrounds_i-ordered-a-coffee-and-a-little-somethin_1118335.jpg) > [There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/there-d-never-been-a-more-advantageous-time-to-be-a-criminal-in/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a7/bill-bryson-340_alcohol_there-d-never-been-a-more-advantageous-t_925055.png) > [Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/your-pillow-alone-may-be-home-to-40-million-bed-mites-to-them-your/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/035/bill-bryson-340_age_your-pillow-alone-may-be-home-to-40-mill_3158848.jpg) > [This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/this-was-1990-the-year-that-communism-died-in-europe-and-it-seemed/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50e/bill-bryson-340_capitalism_this-was-1990-the-year-that-communism-di_1277039.png) > [“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/we-are-so-used-to-the-notion-of-our-own-inevitability-as-life-s/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4e/bill-bryson-340_ancestor_we-are-so-used-to-the-notion-of-our-own_208467.jpg) > [If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-you-believe-in-god-it-s-much-more-fantastic-to-believe-that-he/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/668/bill-bryson-340_activity_if-you-believe-in-god-it-s-much-more-fan_1895103.jpg) > [And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/and-i-find-chopsticks-frankly-distressing-am-i-alone-in-thinking-it/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/974/bill-bryson-340_capture_and-i-find-chopsticks-frankly-distressin_2216009.png) > [Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/every-living-thing-is-an-elaboration-of-a-single-original-plan-as/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d87/bill-bryson-340_adaptation_every-living-thing-is-an-elaboration-of_2872533.jpg) > [But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/but-that-s-the-glory-of-foreign-travel-as-far-as-i-am-concerned-i-don/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/bill-bryson-340_childlike_but-that-s-the-glory-of-foreign-travel-a_1188870.jpg) ## Other authors on Years ## More by Bill Bryson > [Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/most-big-companies-don-t-like-you-very-much-except-hotels-airlines/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/but-welsh-spellings-are-as-nothing-compared-with-irish-gaelic-a/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/pantaloons-were-often-worn-tight-as-paint-and-were-not-a-great-deal/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-you-go-out-on-the-appalachian-trail-you-have-to-bring-so-much-more/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/the-dining-table-was-a-plain-board-called-by-that-name-it-was-hung-on/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/from-almost-nothing-france-in-four-years-built-up-an-aircraft/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/every-twenty-minutes-on-the-appalachian-trail-katz-and-i-walked/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/a-diarist-named-george-templeton-strong-recorded-in-the-winter-of/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/tune-your-television-to-any-channel-it-doesn-t-receive-and-about-1/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/as-a-rule-of-thumb-i-would-submit-that-if-you-need-to-call-your-floss/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/nobody-gets-excited-about-the-future-at-all-ever-the-future-is/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/what-made-this-particularly-interesting-is-that-john-howard-is-by-far/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-would-make-a-genuinely-terrible-guide-i-can-t-remember-things-i/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/in-the-mystifying-world-that-was-victorian-parenthood-obedience-took/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-this-book-has-a-lesson-it-is-that-we-are-awfully-lucky-to-be-here/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/years/bill-bryson/#itemlist", "name": "14 Years Quotes By Bill Bryson", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. 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