Years Quotes

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Person, Lived, Richest

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. Scott Fitzgerald

After, Next, Ourselves

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal

Die, Living, Earth

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
Jerry Seinfeld

Good, Yourself, Husband

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
Karl Lagerfeld

Attitude, Mother, Nothing

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
Phyllis Battelle

Life, Heart, Saying

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
Harvey Fierstein

Work, Angry, Give

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
Chuck Palahniuk

Age, Best, Through

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
Anthony Kiedis

Good, Friends, Pretty

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S. Truman

Enough, Sometimes, Opinion

I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.
Temple Grandin

Remember, Young, Old

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler

Writing, Doubt, Him

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Work, Food, Same

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman

Time, Future, Human

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham

Age, Acceptance, Maturity

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Antonin Artaud

Time, Morning, Able

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

May, State, Thousand

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
Charles Baudelaire

Old, Memories, Thousand

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Why, Write, Asked

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Frank Lloyd Wright

True, Him, Sense

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
William Butler Yeats

Life, Death, Mind

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.
Harvey Fierstein

Work, Nice, Hard

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

Peace, End, Cannot

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
George Mason

Time, Experience, Greatest

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
Ingrid Bergman

Love, Woman, Play

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Horace

Public, Eye, Kept

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John Burroughs

Science, Done, Western

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
Freddie Mercury

Time, Crazy, Dead

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
Isadora Duncan

Today, Human, Through

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
Jonathan Katz

Found, Behind, Couple

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