Years Quotes
25793 Years quotes by 11792 unique authors
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Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most…
— Cesar Chavez
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We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we…
— Cesar Chavez
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Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time…
— John Tyler
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Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we don't have a…
— Cindy Crawford
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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances…
— Marcel Proust
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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue.
— Jonathan Swift
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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
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people…
— Louis C. K.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
— Oscar Wilde
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years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.
— John Cleese
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He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.
— Remy de Gourmont
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I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance'! White people seem to think the black ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred…
— Malcolm X
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Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and…
— Ronald Reagan
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I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The…
— Albert Einstein
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It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years,…
— Thomas Paine
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Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect,…
— Alexander Smith
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Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And…
— Franklin P. Adams
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The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished…
— James E. Faust
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