Years Quotes

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well. But today I heard, 'Oh, well, we weren't invited.' Well, you've been there for three years. You [Ukraine] should have never started it. You could have made a deal.

Karl Rove has been losing for years, except for himself.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for one hundred years.

If you could see that from the many years that we've been here and you could expect that to continue, we see the growth in India.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Forests require many years to mature; consequently the long point of view is necessary if the forests are to be maintained for the good of our country.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

I have lived my life in the House of Commons, having served there for 52 out of the last 54 years of this tumultuous and convulsive century. I have indeed seen all the ups and downs of fate and fortune there, but I have never ceased to love and honour the Mother of Parliaments, the model of the legislative assemblies of so many lands.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

I grew up in Chicago, but I spent a lot of time down in Kentucky, and Kentucky was about 20 years behind the life that was in Chicago.

We've been trying to sell out for years. Problem is that no one was buying.

I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.