Quotes with years-on

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  • Sarah Orne Jewett The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • William Wordsworth The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Boo Weekley The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach The trees creak with their arthritic arms / brittle in thier powederd bark / this year took ten years to / tell me that I'm alone again
    Perfecting Loneliness (2002) Further North
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Boris Johnson The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bruce Jackson The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Deepak Chopra The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
    Deepak Chopra
    East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Aneurin Bevan The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • T. S. Eliot The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bob Goddard The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity a one-dream man.
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  • Beck The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Arthur Henderson The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The years teach us much the days never knew.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barney Frank There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her Elsie Fag.
    Responding to Dick Armeys referring to him as Barney Fag, unidentified publication/date
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Campbell There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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