Quotes about years

But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.

Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I taught myself to ignore it. I did not realize that the pain was eating away at my soul.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather somethin

God, had it really been that long? It had. Nineteen years since Georgie stumbled across Seth in the Spoon offices, seventeen years since she first noticed Neal, fourteen since she married him, standing beside a row of lilac trees in his parents' back yard. Georgie never thought she'd be old enough to talk about life in big, decade-long chunks like this. It's not that she'd thought she was going to die before now, she'd just never imagined it would feel this way, the heaviness of the proportions.

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...

Knowing when to be silent makes you seem wiser beyond your years.

It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night.

I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Every year as you grow older it is your duty to add more years of wisdom. This wisdom may come in many ways. Use it to the best of your abilities

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the two worlds I'd come to know. Other times, Yipes would venture out over the water, and even Matilda came along once. There were loads of clothes and seeds and jars of honey and other such things cramping our space, and children of every age moving between the pillars and The Land of Elyon. And always, always, there was Marco at the pedals, helping guide the way across the Lonely Sea. I have

Time became more important the closer to death one was, so an extra few hours to make peace with the world were worth more than years.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

The solution is so obvious, but for so many of us we would travel a hundred miles out of the way to avoid it, gather a thousand opinions on the way and take a pit stop in fear to check our map before we proceed through hell. Heaven was always a direct flight with no layovers.

We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

Save your golden days as time goes byBefore golden years expire

The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.

My heart is torn in tiny pieces scattered throughout the years. I exist in several places because you carry those pieces with you, wherever you go, whoever you choose to be, I’ll be beside you in one form or another.

He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding.

In times like these I always cheered myself up with a certain story. I forgot just when I first heard it, or who I heard it from... but, back when I was young it would cheer me up when I was feeling depressed. Basically, you think of life in terms of a single 24 hour day. So if you take the average human lifespan, to be around 72 years, then dividing that by 24... that comes to 3 years per hour. Meaning, that if you were 18 it'd only be 6 AM! 6 in the morning is nothing! Schools aren't even open

For years I was deathly afraid of my own weaknesses, but when I closed my eyes and let myself be vulnerable to them it allowed miracles to take place. Miracles that were only alive when I accessed my BLIND faith.

A dream so vibrant,A dream so blissful;I hold it close to my heart.In anxious nights,And days of hope;These years have passed solely.One day the dream to turn true- If only!

It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life?And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

I have a long-standing relationship with Autism Speaks. I've been supporting them for many, many years now.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

Those minute seconds, flip minutes into hours; hours turn into days, weeks, years, and all these happen in a fraction of a life; placed meagerly, amid this endless Universe.

The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

Life isn't about the years you lived. It is about how you lived.

Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth.

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

When the years are dying in the arms of your life,the earth is in pain moving around the sun.

Not so many moons ago, he had been able to run to the summit of the temple without losing a single breath; however, now he felt like an old camel that laboured under a load of corn. Years pass so quickly, and the dreams of youth are lost forever.

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

Life may dawdle along in minutes but don't be deceived, for it will sprint by in years before you even notice.

People live up to 75, the other is just a gift.

Fpr years I thought we were on the same page... then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book...

For years I thought we were on the same page...then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book...

It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.

I can't get it why did I name my book series, I'm talking about "The Life Of One kid". I'm talking about the last word "Kid"?? Aren't your curious I'm with British Accent and putting "Kid" the American word for child the last? I'm also curious I still don't know, I really don't know why. Child sounds like a baby maybe that's all, kid sounds like a child in aobut 7-8 years old!

First comes the day, then the seconds of the event, then the days which become weeks, then the months, then the years.

Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death

A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.

The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

My first marriage ended after 24 years.

Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.