It Is Not The Years That Count Quotes

#1. It is not the years that count; what counts is what you did in those years.

Debasish Mridha

#2. For the first time in years, I have vivid dreams, vivid enough to count the stars and the number of ripples in the sea.

Brittany Weekley

#3. The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

Pablo Casals

#4. You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.

Dan Chaon

#5. Sex fills a few hours of our lives yet those precious minutes count for more than months and years

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#6. I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I used to do these days). And these days I've gotten round to wondering, for each new idea, "do I want to be remembered for this?" before I get to the point of spending a year on it.

Charles Stross

#7. We count by changes and events within us. Not by years.

Charles Dickens

#8. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years. "I

Jay McLean

#9. When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.

Robert Bateman

#10. I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

Roddy Doyle

#11. The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out.

Hugh Jackman

#12. I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

Chuck Mangione

#13. When you're happy, you don't count the years.

Ginger Rogers

#14. Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#15. At the end of every year, I add up the time that I have spent on the phone on hold and subtract it from my age. I don't count that time as really living. I spend more and more time on hold each year. By the time I die, I'm going to be quite young.

Rita Rudner

#16. I was lost. I was found. I, James Cavendish, unrepentant dominant, sexual deviant, and prolific slut for more years than I cared to count, was in love. I'd taken her virgin body, but just as surely, she'd taken my virgin heart.

R.K. Lilley

#17. And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. I began to count mile markers, made mental lists of everything I really needed: a new pair of shoes, a winter coat for the baby, a ticket for a Greyhound traveling back or ahead five hundred years.

Sherman Alexie

#19. The Count was Prince Humperdink's only confidant. His last name was Rugen, but no one needed to use it - he was the only Count in the country, the title having been bestowed by the Prince as a birthday present some years before, the happening taking place, naturally, at one of the Countess' parties.

William Goldman

#20. Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.

Count Basie

#21. I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)

Susan B. Anthony

#22. New York Fashion Week comes only twice a year, make it count

Tommy Hilfiger

#23. When I'm an old man,
I don't want to count the years,
we forgot to share.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#24. He's getting old. I don't count the years. I don't multiply by seven. They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn't they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man?

Peter Heller

#25. Two live grenades that nearly detonated each other. Wave the white flag and count your dead. The war is over. Nurse the wounded and heal your cuts. Write down the memories and tell the tales in later years when you can see the good with the bad.

Kate Monahan

#26. I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

Billie Holiday

#27. The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Gottfried Leibniz

#28. We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.

Colin Powell

#30. Under the burning sun on the street I began to feel the weight of my ninety years, and to count minute by minute the minutes of the nights I had left before I died.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#31. Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

Anton Chekhov

#32. I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

Terri Windling

#33. I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

Sarah McLachlan

#34. The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

Arnold Bennett