Years Quotes

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Let's call them years of a friendly misalliance.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.