Quotes About Golden Years

#1. For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early years, we never took the show's excellence for granted, agreeing that someday we'd look back on the double whammy of 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' as the golden age of TV's singeing singing satire. - Author: Richard Corliss

#2. In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content. - Author: Kevin Spacey

#3. Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. - Author: Charles Dickens

#4. The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass. - Author: Janet Evanovich

#5. Joining 'ER,' I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I've been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called 'Jake in Progress.' - Author: John Stamos

#6. When I was coming up, it was the golden age. It was Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, and Reese Witherspoon was starting. You really had, 'Who is America's Next Sweetheart?' every couple of years. And then this sort of bromance slacker thing took over. - Author: Elizabeth Banks

#7. I didn't really enjoy school. I wouldn't say they were my golden years. - Author: Sophie Wu

#8. My favorite television show has changed throughout the years. I used to think 'Married ... With Children' was really funny. But now that I've gotten older, it's 'The Golden Girls,' believe it or not. That shows kills me. - Author: Blake Shelton

#9. So rather than spending my golden years searching for the meaning of my life, I rather believe I'll just keep on trying to make some meaning out of my life right up until I pitch over nose first into the dirt for that little nap. - Tom King (I Ain't Afraid of No Grim Reaper) - Author: Tom King

#10. I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things. - Author: Patrick Marber

#11. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight - Author: Charles Dickens

#12. Maybe the world had been bad to its great and unusual women. Maybe there wasn't a worthy place for the female hero to live out her golden years, to be celebrated as the men had been celebrated, to take from that celebration what she needed to survive. - Author: Megan Mayhew Bergman

#13. Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years. - Author: Dorothea Dix

#14. They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are. - Author: Joyce Kilmer

#15. It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum! We made it to Hollywood, time to give these aliens the golden boot!" - Angel from the Thousand Years War - Author: Angel Ramon Medina

#16. One of my hobbies is discovering Universal laws. Here's one: if you light a cigarette, the bus always comes immediately. I have tested this theory many years, its a golden rule. If you light the cigarette, the bus ALWAYS comes. - Author: Martijn Benders

#17. Love and Time with reverence use,
Treat them like a parting friend:
Nor the golden gifts refuse
Which in youth sincere they send:
For each year their price is more,
And they less simple than before. - Author: John Dryden

#18. The great Pacific Railway is commenced ... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years ... This is the grandest enterprise under God! - Author: George Francis Train

#19. Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years. - Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson

#20. Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal - Author: Charles Dickens

#21. For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule. - Author: Paul Achleitner

#22. These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years. - Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder

#23. I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high. - Author: Eric Burdon

#24. The earlier years - the ones I've just been telling you about - they tend to blur into each other as a kind of golden time, and when I think about them at all, even the not-so-great things, I can't help feeling a sort of glow. - Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

#25. I possess a gorgeous world.
I created it and painted it like a five
years old, where the sky is woven
with golden threads and the sun is
pearl white.
But alas! You can't observe it as they
are positioned inside my mind my
imaginations ...
-Rohan Nath - Author: Rohan Nath

#26. For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s. - Author: Mikhail Kalashnikov

#27. Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash. - Author: J.M. Barrie

#28. We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men. - Author: Theodore Roosevelt

#29. One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour. - Author: Ned Sublette

#30. The night-sigh comes and funeral march of years repeat, and ebb away. And in a golden glass I see the dream-wished day appear - and wait. - Author: Joy Hester

#31. The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending. - Author: Timothy Ferriss

#32. The years came and went, and gave their blessings, and demanded their sacrifices. - Author: Christie Golden

#33. The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived. - Author: Howard Thurman

#34. As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning. - Author: Jane Green

#35. My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best." - Author: Ronald Reagan

#36. One golden day redeems a weary year - Author: Celia Thaxter

#37. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain. - Author: Arthur Golden

#38. Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has. - Author: Og Mandino

#39. Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years. - Author: Christopher Dodd

#40. We threw chew toys to Misty, Mom's golden retriever that she bought two years ago secondhand. Misty was supposed to be a seeing-eye dog, but she failed her exam because she's too affectionate. It's a flaw we don't mind. - Author: Douglas Coupland

#41. Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead. - Author: Gordon B. Hinckley

#42. I love heels, and as a size 36, I've accumulated a wall of amazing high heels from catwalk shows over the years where designers had to make especially small shoes. Tom Ford's golden versions are my favourite. I do, however, also live in my flat Saint Laurent Chelsea boots or Givenchy sneakers. - Author: Liberty Ross

#43. Golden years' must have been coined by the young. It is doubtful that anyone over seventy would have described this phase of life with such a symbolic word. - Author: Billy Graham

#44. I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned. - Author: Barack Obama

#45. The film 'Boyhood' won the Golden Globe for best drama. It follows one guy's journey over the course of 12 years - or as Mitt Romney calls that, 'running for president.' - Author: Jimmy Fallon

#46. I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later. - Author: David Kirschner

#47. Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT. - Author: Marv Albert

#48. I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years. - Author: Valerie Azlynn

#49. Well, I've almost got the problem licked. I'm eighty now, and in a few more years, I think I'll have it completely under control. (referring to his love of coffee) - Author: J. Golden Kimball

#50. I've been surrounded by dogs my whole life. I got a golden retriever a year after I was born. - Author: Jon Hamm

#51. My name is Oprah Winfrey. I have a talk show. I'm single. I have eight dogs-five golden retrievers, two black labs, and a mongrel. I have four years of college. - Author: Oprah Winfrey

#52. They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with. - Author: Nancy Reagan

#53. on Huang. The 1940s were Silver Dollar's golden years, as all - Author: Li Feng

#54. This is man, who, if he can remember ten golden moments of joy and happiness out of all his years, ten moments unmarked by care, unseamed by aches or itches, has power to lift himself with his expiring breath and say: I have lived upon this earth and known glory! - Author: Thomas Wolfe

#55. Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them. - Author: Richard Corliss

#56. The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#57. Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry. - Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

#58. Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft and golden for years; one poor season will sooner or later be compensated for by another. - Author: Susan Hill

#59. I've often observed that men and women who were young children during these years [of defeat in war] have a certain seriousness about them; there was too little laughter in their childhoods. - Author: Arthur Golden

#60. You're probably wondering: why were Medusa's kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa's body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I'm just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you're in the wrong universe - Author: Rick Riordan

#61. Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years. - Author: Thomas Sowell

#62. The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. - Author: Karen Armstrong

#63. All the crap they tell you about ... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe. - Author: Woody Allen

#64. The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. - Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley