Quotes and Sayings About Years

TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard
-- Abraham J. Williams

#Years #Feet #Long

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Unique #Years #Two

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Government #Years #Space

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Years #Numbers #Heaven

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Medicine #Years #Suffering

There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Teacher #Shoes #Years

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
-- Abraham Verghese

#School #Years #Cynical

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Children #Years #Tragedy

It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.
-- Abram Hoffer

#Years #Medicine #Physicians

Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.
-- Abram Joseph Ryan

#Art #Years #Tears

I've never read anything about ***** where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.
-- Ace Frehley

#Heart #Beer #Years

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
-- Ad Reinhardt

#Art #Years #Fifty

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
-- Adam Ant

#Guitar #Years #May

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
-- Adam Brody

#Kissing #Years #Stuff

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
-- Adam Carolla

#Years #Age #Shows

Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
-- Adam Carolla

#Basketball #Ymca #Years

I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
-- Adam Driver

#Lunch #Years #Four

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
-- Adam Duritz

#Believe #Years #Long

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
-- Adam Faith

#Writing #Sunday #Years

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
-- Adam Faith

#Dream #Blue #Years

The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'
-- Adam Ferrara

#Years #Funny Marriage #Parent

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
-- Adam Garcia

#Years #Two #Feet

I guess they have had 16 years when they haven't even been close in an Ashes series but we have found some sections of the crowd to be scathing and harsh. That has not been overly enjoyable. We have seen a pretty ugly side in some supporters.
-- Adam Gilchrist

#Years #Ashes #Crowds

Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Years #Ingredients #Protein

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.
-- Adam Hochschild

#Determination #Years #Two

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.
-- Adam Kluger

#Strong #Years #Demand

Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.
-- Adam Kokesh

#4th Of July #Government #Years

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
-- Adam Lambert

#Men #Years #Female

In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon

#Years #Forget #Trouble

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
-- Adam McKay

#Thinking #Years #Hustle