Top 100 Quotes About Five Years
#1. Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers
#2. Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.
Andre Agassi
#3. We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore.
Rue McClanahan
#4. I had preached again and again that one must never finish off the east for good, that a certain element of conflict must always remain, that a healthy Volk needs a war every twenty five years for the renewal of its blood.
Timur Vermes
#5. Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.
Siobhan Fahey
#6. The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
Ellie Goulding
#7. After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.
Cat Power
#8. You're a good man. (Rafael)
I guess we'll see in about five years, huh? If I die peacefully, then I'm good. If not, then we'll face each other again as predators. (Apollite)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#9. Jonas, Tate's teenaged son ... looking like mini-Tate, giving me the understanding that in a few years, me and every woman over twenty-five years of age in Carnal would be moved to become a cougar.
Kristen Ashley
#10. Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.
Don Bluth
#11. It's been five years, Leonidis, five years of me loving you." "I
A.E. Via
#12. When I first met you, I thought you were unlike anyone else I had ever known. You made me laugh. No one but Jem has made me laugh in, good God, five years. And you did it like it was nothing, like breathing.
Cassandra Clare
#13. The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.
Conan O'Brien
#14. I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time.
Rick Yancey
#16. Twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.
Gertrude Stein
#17. Working on 'Scrubs' made me feel guilty because I realized that if I had decided to become an actual doctor, instead of just playing one, I could probably have found a cure to cancer within five years.
Zach Braff
#18. She liked the way he chose a good coat and wore it for five years and then chose another one similar to it.
Kathleen Winter
#19. His wife was a tall, stringy woman, perhaps five years older than her husband - say, forty - with a mouth and chin that seemed shaped for gossiping.
Dashiell Hammett
#20. I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.
Martin Gore
#21. Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.
Mike Scully
#22. I come from the school of being (stereotyped) since I was five years old. And I know that I should not be putting my personal issues on the table or letting them effect my work.
Jillian Michaels
#23. Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
Billy Boyd
#24. It was a kiss that was both familiar and brand-new, making me remember a kiss from five years ago, and making me feel like I'd never been kissed before in my life.
Morgan Matson
#25. That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
Thornton Wilder
#26. Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.
Lukas Foss
#27. The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!
William Hartnell
#28. The Giants have won. They have won the World Series for the third time in five years. And Madison Bumgarner has firmly etched his name on the all-time World Series record books as one of the greatest World Series pitchers the game has ever seen.
Jon Miller
#29. I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.
Jennifer Lopez
#30. He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.
Cory Doctorow
#31. Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week.
Jim Cramer
#32. I'm a wall to wall geek. I love sci fi; I've had a crush on Spider-Man since I was five years old, and there's an uncomfortably large shelf in my living room just for my comics.
Katie Findlay
#33. Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.
David Duchovny
#34. When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.
Gunter Grass
#35. This little boy is five years old, and big trees he loved to climb! His special name is Terry
Tali Carmi
#36. The internet has grown so tremendously fast in our society. It is the fastest communications technology in the history of the world. (It) grew from almost a dead stop in 1995 to having 80 million users in the United States alone in five years. Nothing has grown that fast.
William E. Kennard
#37. I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
Patricia Polacco
#38. If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.
Thomas Beecham
#39. In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
William Adams
#40. I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party.
Jonathan Moyo
#41. We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally meet the person who in daydreams you had sculpted without words, the transparency of time becomes the color of hair, and shapeless years become the shape of lips.
Simon Van Booy
#42. Shakespeare broke a mold. After about five years of writing, he saw women as women, including the bind they had been put into. No other playwright, writing before Shakespeare or at the same time as Shakespeare, had ever seen women as women.
Tina Packer
#43. It has been a year, two months, and seventeen days since I last saw him.Two years, ten months and five days since he broke my heart.Technically, he began breaking my heart the moment I met him, five years, eleven months, and one day ago.
Willow Aster
#44. Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.
Mike Gordon
#45. After five years of marriage their idea of a really pleasant evening was to be at home, alone, help each other make a good dinner and then sit for a long time and eat and drink and talk.
Maj Sjowall
#46. Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
Rachel Cusk
#47. My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.
Lewis Black
#48. I learned how important timing is; having a really good idea five years ahead of its time is practically worthless.
Trip Adler
#49. Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore Roosevelt
#50. It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.
Antony Beevor
#51. Happy birthday Obamacare! Five years ago today you came into our lives and nothing's ever been the same since! Our insurance premiums have skyrocketed and our doctor choices have plummeted.
Neil Cavuto
#52. My sister does all this community-service type stuff in Portland that makes the world a much better place. And I make as much in a two-day commercial shoot as she does in five years, which is ridiculous.
Alex Honnold
#53. Savannah's mind brushed his and found genuine regret for her sorrow. "How did you find me?"
"I always know where you are, every moment. Five years ago you said you needed time, and I gave it to you. But I've never left you. I never will."
-Savannah & Gregori
Christine Feehan
#54. Don't be afraid of being laughed at for failing. Fear being sixty-five years-old and never trying.
Troy Gathers
#55. You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in six months there's going to be a whole other set of things to know - again in a year, in five years.' The tools will change, the knowledge will change, the worries will change.
Drew Houston
#56. Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.
Mark Kelly
#57. Via money Europe could become political in five years
Jean Monnet
#58. Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
Roy Lichtenstein
#59. I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#60. We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.
Shirley Temple
#61. He couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet how I wish he had! His introduction to sexual experience would, I feel sure, have been a masterpiece of tact; it might well have speeded up our development by a good five years.
Christopher Isherwood
#62. To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.
Tilda Swinton
#63. The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is.
Walter Mosley
#64. The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.
Justin Vernon
#65. It's like they think we're still five years old, coloring in kindergarten, and all the kids get cupcakes whether its their birthday or not. Maybe its a kind of self-preservation. If parents actually knew what their kids were like, they'd probably shoot themselves in the head.
Coert Voorhees
#67. ...after twenty-five years of treating trauma survivors, I have learned that getting hit is actually one of the more bearable ways a person can be assaulted.
Martha Stout
#68. One reason that Americans as a people became nostalgic about the fifties more than twenty-five years later was not so much that life was better in the fifties (though in some ways it was), but because at the time it had been portrayed so idyllically on television.
David Halberstam
#69. We have put our country on solid ground, but let me tell you: The next five years are much, much more important. The next five years are about turning the good news in our economy into a good life for you and your family.
David Cameron
#70. Every five years, I decide to learn something new.
Jean Pigozzi
#71. I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.
Matt Groening
#72. I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.
Christie Hefner
#73. I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.
Patrice Leconte
#74. We're only five years apart," I said defiantly. "If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we're near normal.
Heather Heffner
#75. From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.
Maelle Gavet
#76. The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.
Norm MacDonald
#77. It's arguable that Ayn Rand's finest achievement was crashing the economy twenty-five years after her death.
Jarett Kobek
#78. How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?
J.K. Rowling
#79. If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!
Harry Browne
#80. It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#81. I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.
David Toop
#82. Her father said it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth.
Harper Lee
#83. Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years
Tony Elumelu
#84. Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old ...
- Wang Lung
Pearl S. Buck
#85. I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.
Erin Gray
#86. The longer the bull market lasts the more severely investors will be affected with amnesia; after five years or so, many people no longer believe that bear markets are possible.
Benjamin Graham
#87. My signature is the one that Hyun Joong hyung made for me five years ago, but I'm still using it.
Kim Hyung-jun
#88. And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.
Nicholas Lea
#89. I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.
Steve Ballmer
#90. Stunt performing is a highly structured career path - you have to gain qualifications in six different sports to a high standard. It takes four or five years and costs at least £20,000; a black belt in a martial art from scratch costs a fortune.
Steve Truglia
#91. 'Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.
Chris Noth
#92. Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.
Ruben Studdard
#93. A lack of resources may slow you down, but don't let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!
Robert H. Schuller
#94. I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.
Lauren Groff
#95. All I knew was that I couldn't have him right now. It was impossible. Could I have him in a year? Two years? Five years? Ten years? I didn't know. All I knew was that although the universe was pushing us together, it was also pushing us apart.
Lily Paradis
#96. One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
Ban Ki-moon
#97. The person that always comes to mind, and it's odd now because we've become pals, is Ben Folds. I've always considered him like a musical older brother, from afar, in the sense that I always felt I had a much better understanding of what he was singing about five years after I was listening to it.
Jason Sudeikis
#98. I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
Jack London
#99. In the forty-five years centered on 1910, the nature of the atom was first understood - partly by shooting pieces of atoms at atoms and watching how they bounce off.
Carl Sagan
#100. A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.
Doseone
