Years Quotes

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

~ James M. Barrie

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

~ Andrew Eldritch

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.

~ Michael Korda

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

~ Peter Fenn

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

~ Thomas Malthus

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

~ Gaylord Nelson

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

~ Rupert Sheldrake

The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

~ Lysander Spooner

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

~ Ron Wyden

The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

~ Virginia Foxx

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

~ David Eagleman

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

~ Johnnie Cochran

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

~ Shirley Bassey

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

~ Newt Gingrich

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

~ Jake Gyllenhaal

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

~ Haley Bennett

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

~ Ron White

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

~ Nikki Reed

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

~ Travis Scott

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

~ Alexa Chung

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

~ Candace Parker

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

~ Dalai Lama