Long Years Quotes

60 Long Years quotes by 59 unique authors

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human… — Rita Levi-Montalcini
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite… — John Burroughs
If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive… — Eda LeShan
Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were a… — Sukarno
The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a… — Julianna Baggott
A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your… — C J Cherryh
I heard some famous people had an anniversary, five long years together, it was Hollywood history. Now my grandma and grandpa never made no printed… — Clay Walker
There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of… — Jules Olitski
To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of… — Samuel Lover
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. — Paul Valery
If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter.… — Emil Zatopek
In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years,… — Lord Byron
Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long… — D. H. Lawrence
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept… — Edith Wharton
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious… — Frank McCourt
Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years… — Gay Hendricks
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and… — Charles Dickens
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm… — James E. Faust
And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even… — Homer
There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught… — T.H. White
I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who… — Alice Sebold
But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her,… — Philip K. Dick
I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally… — Darren Shan
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. — Thomas Hardy
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to… — Kazuo Ishiguro

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