Year Quotes

8165 Year quotes by 5180 unique authors

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?" — Thomas Sowell
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the… — Charles Dickens
Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from. — Thomas Sowell
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is… — Thomas Sowell
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the… — Johannes Kepler
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance… — Ambrose Bierce
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced… — Charles Darwin
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions… — Robert Andrews Millikan
[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good,… — Charles Kingsley
I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two… — Louis Pasteur
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it… — Andrew Wiles
I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't… — Gertrude B. Elion
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all… — Katherine Anne Porter
We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't… — Edwin Land
Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the… — Abraham Lincoln
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year… — Abraham Lincoln
Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive communities a seven-year-old… — Rajneesh
To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from… — Bruce Jenner
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God. — Gloria Steinem
[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year. — Hedi Slimane
At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no… — Goran Ivanisevic
It is your choice to be happy. Make up your mind to enjoy this day, to have a blessed, prosperous, victorious year. You may have… — Joel Osteen

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