Year Passes Quotes

#1. How quickly a year passes, like a mouthful of food snatched from the maw of eternity.

Garth Stein

#2. Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.

Aesop Rock

#3. So the year passes into many yesterdays, and winter comes again.

Jessie Weston

#4. Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish ...

C.J. Cherryh

#5. As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

Henry Parry Liddon

#6. Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

Camilla Lackberg

#7. Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie P. Meek

#8. Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

Gregory David Roberts

#9. As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you've fought the fight, good health becomes harder to maintain. It may disappear overnight or simply dwindle, but with every year that passes, the odds shorten.

Laurie Graham

#10. Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

Louise Brooks

#11. One feeling at least grows stronger in me with each year that passes - a longing to see the cranes. At this time of year I stand on a hill and watch the sky. Today they did not come. There were only wild geese. Geese would be beautiful if cranes did not exist.

Julian Barnes

#12. The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.

Susan Waggoner

#13. The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.

Kate Bernheimer

#14. Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

John Piper

#15. If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

Anthony Horowitz

#17. As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.

Marvin Ammori

#18. All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

George Orwell

#19. I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

John Henry Newman

#20. A year shall I endure for every day that passes until you return.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. On those we love:
"Every year that passed, it seemed a little more of her had slipped away; and I began to fear that one day I would come to foget her altogether. But the truth is: No matter how much time passes, those we have loved never slip away from us entirely.

Amor Towles

#22. One can only presume that people who say that their favorite record of all time reminds them of their honeymoon in Corsica, or of their family Chihuahua, don't actually like music very much.

Nick Hornby

#23. People tell me that I'm impatient because they can't realize each year that passes represents over 1% of a life gone.

Robin Sacredfire

#24. You cannot innovate by copying.

Larry Ellison

#25. With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.

Sherrod Brown