Quotes with years-old

Quotes 781 till 800 of 1807.

  • Bruce Forsyth It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Barbara McClintock It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Bruce Cockburn It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Warren Buffett It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • H. Ross Perot It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Brooks Atkinson It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
    Source: Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Helen Rowland It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
    Source: A Guide to Men (1922)
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bill Fagerbakke It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.
    Bill Fagerbakke
    American actor (1957 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Robert Benchley It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Hank Aaron It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
    Hank Aaron
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder (1934 - )
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  • Bela Lugosi It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bela Lugosi It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Ben Zobrist It was like a heavyweight fight, man. Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up either, and I can't believe we're finally standing, after 108 years, finally able to hoist the trophy.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Liza Minnelli It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
    Liza Minnelli
    American actress and singer (1946 - )
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  • Lord George Byron It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - and in my esteem age is not estimable.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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