Quotes with years

  • The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
  • Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
  • Well, I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I've used them for many, many years.
  • With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
  • A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clear
  • Moses took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.
  • I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
  • Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
  • Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
  • I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
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  • Sigmund Freud The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Robert Frost A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Albert Einstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barbra Streisand Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bono 20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity.
    Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
    PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bob Saget 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Alice Meynell A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Yves Saint-Laurent A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    French fashion designer (1936 - 2008)
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  • Muhammad Ali A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Roger Staubach Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
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  • Kofi Annan Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on drugs, it has not worked. There should be decriminalization of drugs.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Buffalo Bill Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.
    Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Lawana Blackwell He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Joseph Addison He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Walter Cronkite I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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