I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Julius Caesar

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
Richard Dawkins

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
Lord Byron

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Lord Byron

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
R. Lee Ermey

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Steve Prefontaine

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
George W. Bush

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.
George W. Bush

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
Alexis de Tocqueville

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
Bette Davis

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
Henny Youngman