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.
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.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
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.
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.
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow. Advancement - improvement in conditions - is the order of things in a society of equals.
My father, at the Death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up literally without education.
The battle beginning today will decide the fate of the German nation for the next thousand years.
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