Quotes About After All These Years

#1. After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

Kim Edwards

#2. That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

Bruce Forsyth

#3. I don't believe in astrology. It's a lot of crap. I just think that's another thing you should throw out the window. Mysticism. Cheap. It's amazing that people still hang on to that after all these years.

Mick Jagger

#4. I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

Julia Quinn

#5. After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good.

Eddie Murphy

#6. With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before - simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.

Sol Luckman

#7. Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.

Jeff Bridges

#8. I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

Marjane Satrapi

#9. He silenced the thought, already itching to get inside her, his tongue, or his fingers, or his cock. After all these years of wanting, he would gladly accept whatever access to her body she gave him. He just wanted in.

Amber Belldene

#10. Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such a thing...

Ahmed Mostafa

#11. Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

Gardner Dozois

#12. Then I will myself to feel nothing at all. It's not helpful to react the way a normal person would. I banish what will interfere with my clinical discipline and reason, I run it off and far away from me. After all these years I'm good at emptying myself out.

Patricia Cornwell

#13. After all these years, almost 30 years later, whenever I'm on the street, someone will call out, 'Who you gonna call?'

Ernie Hudson

#14. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

Tom Stoppard

#15. Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?

Melina Marchetta

#16. Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

Barbara Hershey

#17. After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

Jimmy Carter

#18. After all these years in the business, I really feel that actors are used. People treat actors worse than they treat children. It's always, 'Do me a favor,' it's always, 'Help me out,' it's always, 'You carry the load,' and then they don't want to admit what you've done.

Diane Ladd

#19. Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still
banging Charles after all these years - "
"Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.

Marisha Pessl

#20. I have been thinking about you a great deal this summer; having somebody take an interest in me after all these years makes me feel as though I had found a sort of family. It seems as though I belonged to somebody now, and it's a very comfortable sensation.

Jean Webster

#21. I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.

David Lee Roth

#22. After all these years, his best friend is malaria.
Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles.

Louis Bayard

#23. Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

Eloisa James

#24. I just want her to know that she's still beautiful, after all these years, and that I'm here - always,

Laura Miller

#25. I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

Jaime Lerner

#26. I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

Paul Simon

#27. When it's silent, your brain fills in the music," Decker told him. "After all these years, I think I've finally learned how to listen.

Faye Kellerman

#28. Yet people are still showing up to lift their hands after all these years even though the church is flawed and broken and beautiful and has a shameful, ugly side to it that I'll bet it wishes it didn't have and repeatedly tries to hide.
Just like me.
Just like you.
Just like always.

Max Andrew Dubinsky

#29. There are now more obese people in the United States than there are overweight people. I think it's safe to say that after all these years, Diet Coke is a complete failure.

Jay Leno

#30. I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.

Mel Gibson

#31. I still get the feeling I got when I started, that's why I'm still doing it after all these years, I still get that full adrenalin rush before I compete.

Mark Occhilupo

#32. What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.

Bobby Rahal

#33. You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner.

Carnie Wilson

#34. After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

Art Garfunkel

#35. After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.

Oprah Winfrey

#36. I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

Geezer Butler

#37. Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.

Lesley Gore

#38. Today I introduced myself to my very own Heart,
In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart.

Ankita Singhal

#39. After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.

Howie Carr

#40. After all these years, the heaviest thing isn't the number on the scale but the weight of the shame I've carried all these years
too big, too big, too big.

Shauna Niequist

#41. I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

Jay Mohr

#42. No one understands me better and no one can make me laugh the way Bill does. Even after all these years, he is still the most interesting, energizing and fully alive person I have ever met.

Hillary Clinton

#43. Even after all these years, she still said the word "gig" self-consciously, in the same way that she always said "croissant" with the proper French pronunciation, but with an apologetic, self-deprecating look to make up for her pretentiousness.

Liane Moriarty

#44. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years ... it's unbelievable.

Eydie Gorme

#45. My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

Emma Forrest

#46. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it. I just, you know, I want it to be a good show, and I want people to get their money's worth.

Robin Zander

#47. I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.

Slash

#48. But most important...what kind of father can look his own son in the eyes...even after all these years...and not even recognize him!

Dan Brown

#49. 'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.

Andy Serkis

#50. Goddamn you. How can you still make me feel this way after all these years? Damn you for leaving me! And damn you for coming back like this, just when I thought you were gone forever and I might finally be able to forget you.

Lara Adrian

#51. After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride ... it's not much but at least I have my pride.

Jay London

#52. But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore.
I liked it.
I liked her.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#53. When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Gloria Steinem

#54. Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie's ever-present heartaches.

Andrew Galasetti

#55. Tonight the song you always despised strides from the jukebox full-bodied and you hear the lyrics for the first time, understand the lyrics for the first time after all these years. This new you with an older soul. Now it's your favorite. All this time singing the wrong words.

Colson Whitehead

#56. I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.

Charles Krauthammer

#57. After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

#58. I try to stay in shape, I work out in the gym, take my vitamins every day, and I guess maybe I have some good genes, but lately I've been feeling it. You know, after all these years it does catch up with you. But just for now.

Regis Philbin

#59. My first and foremost goal when I joined the Yankees was to win the world championship. Certainly, it's been a long road and very difficult journey. But I'm just happy that after all these years we were able to win and reach the goal that I had come here for.

Hideki Matsui

#60. There are elements of Piglet that are me: the shyness and the anxieties and fears. Even after all these years. The more you know, the higher your standards are and the more you have to lose.

John Fiedler

#61. I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

Paddy Considine

#62. After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain

#63. I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

Matthew McConaughey

#64. France will take on a militant tone, leaving its beautiful cultural tower to chase power after all these years.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#65. After all these years, my heart still wants you. It still misses you. it still aches for you. I can't control what my heart wants, I could just deny it of it ... Love, Viv

Eveli Acosta

#66. And yet now, after all these years, I find that it doesn't matter whether I filmed it or not, because we lose our children not once but over and over again. That loss, I can feel it now, yesterday, tomorrow, every minute, and I promise you, I do.

Neil Gordon

#67. I like to be honest, and after all these years I can't be bothered being politically correct.

Sharon Osbourne

#68. It took a lot of water to down just that f-king bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my f-king throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened f-king once, for Christ's sake.

Ozzy Osbourne

#69. He kisses her, and she knows, somehow, that he is asking for help, for an end to the sadness they are causing one another. Asking because, after all these years together, it is the only thing that might save them.

Madeleine Thien

#70. Millions of filmmakers would love to be in my position right now. If you are honest it makes the world a better place. I created the room with my passion and after all these years it finally worked out.

Tommy Wiseau

#71. God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

Alice Walker

#72. It's a little strange, after all these years of working on camera, but once you start to watch the other people who do this a lot and realize how much of what you're doing has to just come through your voice, I found it really interesting.

Clark Gregg

#73. After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with actors: help us navigate finer instincts, help us when we're wrong, encourage us when things are great.

Brian Geraghty

#74. After all these years of listening to you rant about Prince Dickhead, I want to meet him for myself. (Francesca)
Fine, but remember to avert your gaze from his. He'll suck the goodness right out of the marrow of your bones and leave you as morally bankrupt as he is. (Esperetta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#75. What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.

Steven Tyler

#76. And you, CONSTANT READER. Thank God you're still there after all these years. If you're having fun, I am, too.

Stephen King

#77. And now here I am, suddenly, after all these years, home. I am not exactly the black sheep of my family, but it is not like I am grazing in pastels. Getting

George Hodgman

#78. Even after all these years, the thought of Isagol the Terrible stirred such a storm in him- of rancor and longing, desire and disgust, violence and even affection- all of it seething and bleeding and writhing, like a pit of rats eating one another alive.

Laini Taylor

#79. After all these years, he stood humbled and she stood corrected. Tara's eyes were downcast as she looked at the distance between them. If he had taken a step towards her, she was sure she could take a million too.

Mita Jain

#80. After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#81. Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years.

Anne Lamott

#82. Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

James Dashner

#83. You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.

Henry Winkler

#84. It's as if, after all these years, the quest itself has become the point for me, and the end is frightening.

Stephen King

#85. After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#86. Even after all these years, there was something he knew he needed to prove. To himself, and to the night.

Peter V. Brett

#87. Dubai was so special to me, Javi. You're special to me."
"Being close to you like this after all these years ... The way you make me feel ... I want to get closer to you, and that scares me.

Pamela Clare

#88. As we used to say in the mountains, "Breathe. Breathe again. With every breath, you are alive." After all these years, this still the best advice I can give you: Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

Nando Parrado

#89. After all these years, he couldn't believe he'd recognized her so instantly. He prayed that she wouldn't recognize him, but as her eyes widened, he knew she had.
"Marcos?" she breathed.
And his worst nightmare came true. His cover was blown.

Elizabeth Heiter

#90. It still, after all these years, puts frost into my blood to remember that men like LeMay and Powers had their fingers so close to the button.

Mal Peet

#91. She couldn't quite believe it, even after all these years. It was a phenomenon of stupendous and unjustifiably useless extravagance. Yet here it lay, soft and powdery, edibly pure.

Michel Faber

#92. -I gave you your life.
-You gave me chains.
-I thought you would have learned by now after all these years; you cannot have one without the other.

Patrick Tatopoulos

#93. If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But
after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a
mountain high! A hill wasn't enough.

V.C. Andrews

#94. I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

Vikram Rohit Shetty

#95. The husband, on his deathbed, called over his wife and said, "One month after I die, I want you to marry Larry." "Larry? But he is your enemy!" "Yes, I know that. I've suffered all these years, so let him suffer now.

Various

#96. I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do. I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years ... and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.

Billy Crystal

#97. Even after all of these years, Amelia London was still my kryptonite, and she still didn't know it.
I couldn't think straight around her. My body reacted on its own around her. My heart, too. It was Amelia's world, and I was just trying to survive in it.

J.J. McAvoy

#98. After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years, I've had to take houses big enough to hold all these bibelots. I am almost grateful to him."

Anne Sebba

#99. This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#100. After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

Michael J. Fox