Quotes on Years

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Author: Chinua Achebe

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.

Author: Will Adams

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

Author: Josef Albers

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

Author: Eddie Albert

For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

Author: Fernando Alonso

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

Author: Jeff Ament

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

Author: Philip Anderson

Where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.

Author: Christopher Anstey

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.

Author: Giorgio Armani

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Author: Joan Armatrading

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

Author: Richard Attenborough

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

Author: Frankie Avalon

You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.

Author: Roy Ayers

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

Author: Roy Ayers

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

Author: Bruce Babbitt

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

Author: Jim Bakker

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!

Author: Peter Banks

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

Author: Russell Banks

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

Author: Joseph Barbera

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

Author: Joseph Barbera

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written.

Author: Todd Barry

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

Author: Ahmed Bella

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

Author: Peter Benchley

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

Author: Dirk Benedict

What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.

Author: Dennis Bergkamp

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

Author: Ronald Biggs

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

Author: Rudolf Bing

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

Author: Jane Birkin

I was a smoker for about 20 years.

Author: Selma Blair

I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.

Author: William Blatty

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

Author: Don Bluth

I boxed 15 years in a club.

Author: Uwe Boll

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

Author: Ed Bradley

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

Author: Richard Brautigan

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

Author: Van Brooks

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

Author: Sherrod Brown

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

Author: Gavin Bryars

Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.

Author: Lindsey Buckingham

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

Author: Jimmy Buffett

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Author: Warren Buffett

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

Author: Thomas Bulfinch

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

Author: Steve Buscemi

I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.

Author: Columba Bush

I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come.

Author: Max Cannon

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Author: Truman Capote

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.

Author: Robert Caro

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

Author: Leslie Caron

I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back.

Author: David Carradine

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

Author: Steve Case

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

Author: Steve Case

I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

Author: Dan Castellaneta

I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

Author: Gary Cherone

The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

Author: Caryl Chessman

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

Author: Julian Clary

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

Author: Kate Clinton

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

Author: Brian Clough

Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.

Author: Joe Cocker

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

Author: Claudette Colbert

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

Author: Jim Coleman

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

Author: Judy Collins

I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle.

Author: Stephen Collins

You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.

Author: Jimmy Connors

Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles.

Author: Kenneth Cooper

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.

Author: Kenneth Cooper

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

Author: Piers Corbyn

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

Author: Piers Corbyn

I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

Author: Courteney Cox

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

Author: Wayne Coyne

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

Author: Steve Cropper

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

Author: Steve Cropper

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

Author: David Cross

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

Author: Burton Cummings

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

Author: Imogen Cunningham

I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.

Author: Kenny Cunningham

I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.

Author: Jamie Curtis

The two championship years were that significant for me.

Author: Chuck Daly

This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience.

Author: James Denton

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

Author: Paul Desmond

The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.

Author: Caroline Dhavernas

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.

Author: Bruce Dickinson

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

Author: Norm Dicks

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

Author: Phyllis Diller

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

Author: Placido Domingo

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

Author: Frederick Douglass

When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years.

Author: Julia Dreyfus

Years are not important, my dear.

Author: Faye Dunaway

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

Author: Clea Duvall

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

Author: Christopher Eccleston

It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

Author: Dennis Eckersley

The years teach much which the days never know.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

Author: Arthur Erickson

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

Author: Paul Farmer

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

Author: Roger Federer

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

Author: Henry Fonda

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

Author: Harrison Ford

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

Author: Tennessee Ford

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

Author: Lukas Foss

I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.

Author: John Foster

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

Author: Jeff Foxworthy

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

Author: Louis Freeh

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Author: Art Garfunkel

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

Author: Boy George

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

Author: Balthazar Getty

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling.

Author: Michael Giles

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

Author: David Gill

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

Author: Fay Godwin

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Author: William Godwin

I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

Author: Jerry Goldsmith

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

Author: Samuel Goldwyn

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.

Author: Terry Goodkind

I didn't expect us to be around after 25 years.

Author: Martin Gore

I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.

Author: Richard Gough

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

Author: Lou Gramm

I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me.

Author: Eva Green

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

Author: Colin Greenwood

I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years.

Author: Adrian Grenier

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

Author: Pam Grier

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

Author: Alma Guillermoprieto

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

Author: Thom Gunn

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.

Author: Sammy Hagar

I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.

Author: Larry Hagman

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

Author: Ruth Handler

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

Author: James Hansen

If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger.

Author: Mariska Hargitay

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

Author: Mary Hart

Sabrina ran for seven years with a different director every week.

Author: Melissa Hart

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Author: John Havlicek

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Author: William Hazlitt

Well, you know, one lawyer says I'm the only witness and I'm not credible. Another lawyer says this witness - there's tons of evidence that's been available for years.

Author: Patty Hearst

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

Author: Patricia Heaton

I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

Author: Jack Herer

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

Author: Dan Hicks

I didn't make a 147 until few years ago - I just wasn't the sort of player who went for them. But it's like buses I suppose, one comes along and then a few more follow.

Author: John Higgins

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

Author: Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

Author: Walter Hill

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

Author: Martina Hingis

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

Author: Robyn Hitchcock

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

Author: Anthony Holden

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

Author: Anthony Hopkins

I've been number two in films for donkey's years.

Author: Trevor Howard

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

Author: Jane Hull

Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.

Author: John Hull

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

Author: Neil Innes

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

Author: Reggie Jackson

Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.

Author: Robert Jackson

I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.

Author: Marion Jones

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

Author: Star Jones