Quotes and Sayings About Years

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
-- A. A. Gill

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

#Years #World #Draws

We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
-- A. B. Simpson

#Years #Humanity #Suffering

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
-- A. E. Housman

#Years #Twenties

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
-- A. E. Housman

#Spring #Years #White

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
-- A. E. van Vogt

#Writing #Years #Ideas

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
-- A. E. van Vogt

#Science #Years #Fiction

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Compassion #Keys #Years

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Writing #Years #Fans

I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
-- A. J. Jacobs

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

#Book #Utah #Years

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
-- A. J. Jacobs

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

#Health #Years #Disease

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Real #Fighting #Years

The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Years #Europe #Organization

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.

#Years #Political #Heaven

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Drinking #Wine #Years

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Writing #Years

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Wise #Men #Years

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
-- A. P. Herbert

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

#Men #Years #Political

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
-- A. R. Ammons

#Years #Imagine #Hundred

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!
-- A. R. Rahman

#New Year #Years #India

No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
-- A. Ray Olpin

#Learning #Thinking #Years

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’
-- A. Scott Berg

#Years #Ideas #Pockets

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
-- A. Scott Berg

#Years #Soul

I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.
-- A.S. King

#Baby #Years #Car

I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.
-- Aaron Allston

#Daughter #Years #Fire

We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.
-- Aaron Boone

#Team #Reality #Years

At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.
-- Aaron Broussard

#Dragons #Years #Going Out

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
-- Aaron Carter

#Coffee #Rocks #Years

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Jobs #New York #Years

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Thinking #Years #People

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.
-- Aaron Klug

#Teaching #Responsibility #Years