Twenty Years Quotes

355 quotes by 310 authors

• The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun
• Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went… — Erma Bombeck
• If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. — Lenny Bruce
• The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. — John Jay Chapman
• Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you… — Vincent Matthews
• It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years… — Paulo Coelho
• It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. — Eddie Cantor
• The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder… — Colman McCarthy
• The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding… — George Bernard Shaw
• I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower. — Gypsy Rose Lee
• You know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we've had… — George Carlin
• Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building. — Oscar Wilde
• [There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human… — Irving Langmuir
• Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably… — Alister MacKenzie
• But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness… — Jonathan Haidt
• 'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can… — Robert Ruark
• From the beginning, what I was connecting with in the gym was a universal energy source. I would just feel it flowing. Even when I… — Shawn Phillips
• I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved… — George H. Miley

Who Wrote These Twenty Years Quotes

310 authors contributed a total of 355 Twenty Years Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 Twenty Years Quotes by Sadie
• 4 Twenty Years Quotes by Mark Twain
• 3 Twenty Years Quotes by William J. Clinton
• 3 Twenty Years Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Haruki Murakami
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Abdullah ibn Mubarak
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Virginia Woolf
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Ritu Ghatourey
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Peter Lynch
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Ray Bradbury
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Geoff Downes
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Louis Aragon
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Jack Handey
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Robert Southey
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Janis Joplin
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Mak_786
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Peter Matthiessen
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Oscar Wilde
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
• 2 Twenty Years Quotes by Robert Casey
• 1 Twenty Years Quote by Alister MacKenzie
• 1 Twenty Years Quote by Pete Rose
• 1 Twenty Years Quote by Tommy Dorsey