Quotes
Quotes about Years
Cats took many thousands of years to domesticate humans.
Cats took many thousands of years to domesticate humans.
The butterfly counts not years but moments and so has enough time.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
My wife and I were happy for 20 years - then we met.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages 20 years.
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Youth is the first victim of war - the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years, grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
I haven't touched my brother in almost 18 years. (in reference to cruel prison regulations in Mansfield Ohio prison) http://www.kennyisinnocent.org http://www.petitiononline.com/manci.
Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
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.
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
The Man and His Two Sweethearts A middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find. Thus it came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had not a hair left on his head. Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
