Seven Years Quotes:

I spent seven years of my life in the immediate aftermath of September 11th doing this work, working with the Patriot Act, working with our law enforcement, working with the surveillance community to make sure that we keep America safe.

- Chris Christie

source: "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

topic: Seven Years, America, Law, Patriot Act

I’ve been dead for seven years, that’s as warm as they get.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.42, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Years, Seven Years, Seven

The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.

- Ann Coulter

source: "Bush's America: 100 Percent Al-Qaida Free Since 2001" by Ann Coulter, June 11, 2008.

topic: Men, Seven Years, America

I often say, with something like 'The Elephant Man,' had it been an American series for television, where you have to sign your life away for seven years...well, maybe I would never have made 'Sailcloth.'

- John Hurt

source: Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

topic: Men, Seven Years, Elephants, Elephant Man

Well, I think that's been my career. I always choose stuff that's the same, yet different. These projects just happened. I didn't plan it out that way. I just happened to be free, and the director, Dan Pritzker, decided to do his film again. I say again because we did it seven years ago. A lot of the actors were not available, so he just couldn't wait anymore and he recast everything. Me and two other characters are the only people involved with the new one, who were involved with the previous one.

- Michael Rooker

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Character, Thinking, Seven Years

Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

- Kathleen Norris

topic: Seven Years, May, Classic

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

- Plato

source: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

topic: Truth, Men, Order, Seven Years

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

- Walter Scott

source: Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes”, p.240

topic: Years, Use, Seven, Seven Years

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Long, Wish, Shame, Tibet, Seven Years

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

- Heinrich Harrer

topic: Inspirational, Karma, Worry, Tibet, Seven Years

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

- H. Allen Smith

topic: Monday, Morning, Men, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Perseverance, Years, Space, Seven Years

I think seven years is a great time to end a series.

- Daniel Palladino

source: Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

topic: Thinking, Years, Seven, Seven Years

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

- John Wesley

source: 'Journal' 1 September 1778

topic: Writing, Years, Shame, Methodists, Sermons

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Funny, Mother, Humorous, Seven Years

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

- Robert Orben

topic: Years, Wife, Awful, Seven Years

You have all this stuff going on in your head, like, 'I can't believe seven years has gone by, and I'm going to miss all these people.' And I'm like, 'Oh, by the way, Mick Jagger is to my right, and I just danced a waltz with him.' So there's that.

- Kristen Wiig

topic: Believe, Years, People, Jagger, Waltz

After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for seven years and excitement of the new opportunities in acting and producing that lie ahead.

- Lisa Edelstein

source: "Lisa Edelstein Quitting 'House,' Report Says", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2011.

topic: Disappointment, Lying, Moving, Seven Years

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘The Sound of Music,’ and my mum’s an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn’t find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

- Alicia Vikander

topic: Sleep, Wings, Years, Sound Of Music, Seven Years

Young people want to be famous before they know how to cook, before they know how to treat people, before they know what hospitality means. I stayed in France for seven years and Austria for three, so before I was a chef anywhere I was already cooking for 10 years.

- Wolfgang Puck

topic: Mean, Years, People, Austria, Seven Years

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

- Fred Melamed

topic: Boys, Years, Giving, Hanukkah, Gift Giving

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

- Mickey Mantle

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Athlete, Mean, Average, Favorite Sports, Baseball Games

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

- Shelley Duvall

topic: Past, Years, Acting, Seven Years

I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

- Bill Mumy

topic: Writing, Years, Six, Seven Years

I was 32 years old, and I've changed my mind. And the biggest reason that I changed my mind was my seven years as a federal prosecutor. What I learned in those seven years was that we were spending too much time talking about gun laws against law- abiding citizens and not nearly enough time talking about enforcing the gun laws strongly against criminals.

- Chris Christie

source: "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

topic: Gun, Talking, Years, Prosecutor, Law Abiding Citizen

This is a president [Barack Obama] who came into office in 2008 with a big majority in the House and with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Because of his policies and his conduct in office, seven years later, we have our largest majority in the House since 1928, and we have a majority in the Senate and we have 31 of the 60 governorships.

- Chris Christie

source: "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

topic: Years, Office, House, President Barack Obama, Filibuster

I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

- Bo Derek

source: Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

topic: Horse, Years, Racing, Commissioners, Seven Years

I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.

- Billy Joel

source: "No 'Pressure' for Billy Joel as he begins tour". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. December 16, 2005.

topic: Thinking, Years, Listening, Different Life, Seven Years

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

- Tim Reid

topic: Years, Once Upon A Time, Seven, Seven Years

I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.

- Jennifer Lawrence

topic: Thinking, Years, People, Chewing, Chewing Gum

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.

- Vinton Cerf

topic: Dog, Business, Years, Internet Business, Seven Years

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Life, Motivational, Learning, Seven Years

I think my weight-training proved to me more than anything that I can do anything in life if I really put my mind to it. I saw me bring myself from 137 pounds to 175 pounds over a seven-year period. That alone said to me that all you have to do is really stick with something, and you can accomplish anything you want. It's brought me great self-esteem because I know I did it. I changed me.

- Aaron Tippin

topic: Self Esteem, Thinking, Years, Weight Training, Anything In Life

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

- Mark Twain

source: Attributed in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1937. The attribution to Twain is obviously spurious because Twain's father died when the future writer was eleven years old.

topic: Inspirational Life, Father, Personal Opinions, Twenty One, Seven Years

During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him.

- Rajneesh

topic: Children, Mean, Hypnosis, Seven Years

LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why all that pain. again. and you, such a fighter you fought me over and over with tears and words and promises. you fought for me with honesty and a light so bright it hurts my heart. sweet lorna. at peace now finally no more battles, just light from within a flickering candle in the dark burns with you.

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Sweet, Hurt, Honesty, Seven Years

I played seven years in Minnesota and I'm looking forward to a better, greater seven years down in Miami. I'm back home. It's great.

- Daunte Culpepper

topic: Home, Years, Minnesota, I'm Back, Seven Years

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep-great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

- Edward Mills Purcell

source: "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, Decemebr 11, 1952.

topic: Eye, Winter, Discovery, New Eyes, Proton

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

- Rich Little

topic: Years, Feet, Taught, Seven Years

[on the reason for his seven-year hiatus in direction] My son Aditya made Mohabbatein, which took a lot of time and energy. Then we started looking for a script for me to direct. Nothing seemed to excite us both. There's a complete bankruptcy of screenwriting in our cinema. I wanted a very earthy and Indian subject. I was tired of the promos on television. With semi-clad girls, they all looked the same. Of course Dhoom has them too. But I'd personally not make a film like that.

- Yash Chopra

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Tired, Son, Hiatus, Seven Years

America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in another seven years we will be on the same level as America. When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you.

- Nikita Khrushchev

topic: War, Years, America, Seven Years

There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.

- Esa Saarinen

topic: Writing, Years, People, Seven Years

I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio was just seven years old in 1974. It was a tiny organization in which a lot of things got started simply because there was all this time to fill. If you wanted to do an hour on Lithuanian folk dancing, you probably could have done it.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Summer, Home, Years, Public Radio, Lithuanians

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

- Chris Weitz

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Stars, War, Years, Seven Years

I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can't work in the house because she's trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I'm literally trying to record in the tent.

- Matt Berninger

source: "Back to School With Walter Martin" by Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.

topic: Tiny Houses, Seven Years

Directing takes a lot longer than acting. This was about seven years in development, and then two and a half years with pre-production, production, post and now the release. Not that I have people banging on my door to star in movies, but it takes me out of the acting game for a longer chunk of time.

- David Schwimmer

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Chunks, Seven Years

I was pretty nervous when I met Robert Kirkman. It's very strange to meet someone who created you. Andrea [ from The Walking Dead] is still very much alive and kicking, seven years into the comic book, so to meet Robert and be like, "Hi, I'm Andrea," I had to just hope that he was happy with the decision.

- Laurie Holden

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Book, Years, Walking Dead, Andrea, Seven Years

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

- Gwendoline Christie

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fashion, Book, Years, Seven Years

I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.

- Chris Matthews

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Impact, Rome, Years, John Paul, Pope John Paul

When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'

- Tom Waits

topic: Dad, Son, Years, Seven Years

Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes on is usually directly related to the number of bathrooms he has in his home and office. I am working on a survey that will show that, over a lifetime, readers are in bathrooms seven years and three months longer than nonreaders.

- Calvin Miller

topic: Book, Home, Hands, Three Months, Seven Years

You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - "all hat and no cattle." Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Hillary Clinton's Remarks on Feb. 12 Primaries". Hillary Clinton's campaign speech in El Paso, Texas, www.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2008.

topic: Texas, Years, Needs, Seven Years

The model for our early bankruptcy laws was Deuteronomy, the idea that, under certain circumstances - in Deuteronomy, it is simply the passage of seven years' time - people are released from debt, simply because they are released from debt. No more debt. You start over again. This has been a very powerful model in this country. It's being destroyed now. People talk about how much new employment, new wealth, and so on are continuously generated in this country.

- Marilynne Robinson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Country, Powerful, Years, Seven Years

My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

- Jamie Dimon

topic: Daughter, Home, School, Financial Crisis, Seven Years

Because of our library system anyone in America can educate themselves in any field they desire. If they are confused, librarians (that without exception in my forty-seven years experience with them) actually want to help; they take the time to try and get whatever is needed. For free. For anybody.

- Nevada Barr

topic: Confused, Years, America, Seven Years

For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.

- Thom Powers

topic: Taken, Editing, Years, Seven Years, Sundance