Quotes with thousand-a-year

Quotes 61 till 80 of 561.

  • Lord George Byron And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
    - +
     0
  • Barry Humphries And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.
    My Life as Me: A Memoir
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
    - +
     0
  • Barack Obama And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Rock And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
    - +
     0
  • Winston Churchill Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Nathanael Emmons Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Uecker Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alain de Botton Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
    - +
     0
  • Anita Diamant As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Lee As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Mikulski As we move from an economy of affluence to an economy of scarcity, we must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those who make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
    - +
     0
  • Billy Parish At the end of 2002, mid-way through my junior year at Yale and increasingly freaked out about the deepening climate crisis, I dropped out to try to build a youth movement.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bo Burnham At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alan Cohen Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • W. Mitchell Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
    - +
     0
  • Bill Ayers Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
    - +
     0
  • Anish Kapoor Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carl Hagelin Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
    - +
     0
  • Joseph Addison Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
    - +
     0
All thousand-a-year famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 4)