Years Quotes

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

~ Carly Fiorina

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.

~ Dale T. Mortensen

I'm very boring. I'm a mom. I'm 34 years old.

~ Britney Spears

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids.

~ Kourtney Kardashian

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

~ Kathie Lee Gifford

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

~ Alison Lohman

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

~ Vladimir Lenin

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

~ Mike Pence

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

~ John Adams

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

~ Grover Norquist

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

~ Ron Kind

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

~ Gerry Adams

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

~ Harry S Truman

I've been dating since I was 15 years old, and I just don't seem to do it well.

~ Harvey Fierstein

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

~ Melinda Gates

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.

~ Warren Buffett

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

~ Ric Flair

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

~ Plautus

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

~ Marc Andreessen

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

~ Michael Schumacher

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.

~ Stanley Kubrick

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

~ Paul Theroux

The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.

~ Tim O'brien

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

~ Peter Defazio

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

~ Helen Hayes

So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.

~ Jo Brand

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

~ Elinor Wylie

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

~ Roxane Gay

I have a long-standing relationship with Autism Speaks. I've been supporting them for many, many years now.

~ Nikki Reed

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

~ Monty Hall

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

~ Eddie Cantor

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

~ Keith Henson

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

~ Adrien Brody

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

~ Peter Porter

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

~ Robert Morgan

The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.

~ George M. Church

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

~ James Lovelock