Quotes with years-old

Quotes 501 till 520 of 1807.

  • Bryan Robson I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Noel Coward I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alan Dershowitz I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Adam Brody I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
    Adam Brody
    American actor, writer, musician, and producer (1979 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • William Shakespeare I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry Miller I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William Blake I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
    Source: The Zookeepers Wife (2008)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bill Gates I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
    Source: 1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. [1]
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • A. Philip Randolph I have waited twenty-two years for this... I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Stephen Hawking I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Angela Carter I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Rodney Dangerfield I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Walt Whitman I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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