Years To Quotes

#1. The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

Halsey

#2. I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

Chris Webber

#3. Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

William Wordsworth

#4. I've had years to see the funny side.

Derek Landy

#5. Every two years, to keep Moore's Law happening, you have to invent ... That's where I grew up.

Brian Krzanich

#6. It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

Edward Abbey

#7. 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

#8. We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

Phil Collen

#9. My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

Donald McKay

#10. And for long years to come I am destined by some strange fate to walk hand in hand with my odd heroes, to gaze at life in its vast movement, to gaze upon it through laughter seen by the world and tears unseen and unknown by it!

Nikolai Gogol

#11. If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

Demi Lovato

#12. The mere adding of years to life is not living.

Paul Hoffman

#13. The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

Ronald Ross

#14. It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." - George Herman "Babe" Ruth

Anonymous

#15. I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come.

Max Cannon

#16. Wagner thought Rossini unserious; Rossini thought Wagner 'lacked sun'. Wagner also became the butt of a phrase Rossini had used down the years to describe musicians about whom he had certain reservations - "He has some beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour!

Richard Osborne

#17. I left acting for a couple of years to found my company, Wayfarer, and the first project I did was this documentary series I created called 'My Last Days' to remind us that our time is limited and to inspire us to do more and to be the best selves that we can be.

Justin Baldoni

#18. When I say that it's taken us [with Luca Guadagnino ] 11 years to make this film, what I mean is that it was 11 years ago that we started to talk about a kind of cinema that we wanted to make together.

Tilda Swinton

#19. In less than twelve hours, Purslane's ship would be travelling so close to the speed of light that the fastest ship ever built would still need a hundred thousand years to catch up with her.

Alastair Reynolds

#20. It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

Ian Hunter

#21. Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.

Dilip Shanghvi

#22. I was raised Catholic," he began. "But you're not now?" the judge asked, frowning. "No," he said. He had worked for years to keep the apology out of his voice when he said this.

Hanya Yanagihara

#23. We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.

Jim Cooper

#24. I was staying at my friend's house and he told me about the drug Prednisone. It took me 14 years to discover it. And there are a lot of times that would have helped me out over the years. I can't believe I'd never even heard of it, though.

Hamilton Leithauser

#25. 'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.

M.I.A.

#26. Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.

Avi

#27. Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

Alain De Botton

#28. Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.

Anthony Foxx

#29. Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

Ma Jian

#30. 'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.

Rob Sheffield

#31. Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

Lil B

#32. I was with her for about six years before I asked her to marry me, which only means one thing: I shouldn't have done it! If you wait six years to get engaged, you are on the fence.

Marc Maron

#33. Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.

Robert Kiyosaki

#34. Even the stars are lies. They sparkle so brightly, but their shine takes years to reach us.

Kelley York

#35. The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'

Michael Masser

#36. In the space between our bodies
there is a cup holder filled with pennies
a distance which can often take years to cross

Mira Gonzalez

#37. If I never tried, even if it takes me 20 years to achieve something, then I'd never accomplish anything.

Carolyn R. Tracy

#38. It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn't get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

Rainbow Rowell

#39. Mankind had built a world that would take hundred years to die. A century for the last lights to go out.

Justin Cronin

#40. The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

Boris Trajkovski

#41. Bibles and prayers are great. Also great are people who have gone to school for years and years to learn how to help you work through things. The

Melanie Dale

#42. It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

Junot Diaz

#43. I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months

The Weeknd

#44. Plan your hours to be productive ... Plan your weeks to be educational ... Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

Iyanla Vanzant

#45. If I want to hand one of my old shotguns that I've had for 50 years to my grandkid one day, I have to go through a federal transfer? It's crazy.

Donald Trump Jr.

#46. You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

John Brunner

#47. 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.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#48. I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Dambisa Moyo

#49. I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I will never get tired of. Their sensual beauty immerses us with color, smell, taste and touch.

Louis Schwartzberg

#50. We've invested in Newark's children, the schools and teachers, and these are long-term bets that need a number of years to really pan out. We've seen and learned how important it is to listen to the community and really get a sense of what they need and want. And it's a long journey.

Priscilla Chan

#51. I learned how to sumon,
from somewhere deep within,
the extra will I didn't know I possessed.
Knowing it was there, and could be tapped again,
gave me the boost of confidence
I would rely on for years to come.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#52. I like what Don Imus has done through the years to help kids with cancer at the Imus Ranch. He has raised awareness about autism. He has done any number of good things.

Steve Capus

#53. It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film you're doing, you're in trouble.

Alex Gibney

#54. We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

John Le Carre

#55. I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.

Jesse Ventura

#56. It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.

Barbra Streisand

#57. Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

#58. It took two years to make,' retorted the Time Traveller

H.G.Wells

#59. I dreamed of having a Gibson. I had a cheap Kent - you know, a Japanese guitar - and then a Kanora, a Japanese guitar. I borrowed a friend's Harmony for years. To have a Gibson was really, really my dream as a kid.

Alex Lifeson

#60. I still have five years to the end of my term. There are many candidates. There'll be a problem if it's supposed to be a European or someone from the emerging countries, the so-called BRICS. This will be decided, but please don't think Poland has anything to say about it.

Marek Belka

#61. I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.

Shaquille O'Neal

#62. When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same
person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

Billy Graham

#63. It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good or bad news.

Richard Branson

#64. That hope never left us, and it sustained us in the years to come, despite the fact that we had no good reason to expect our situation to improve.

Thomas Buergenthal

#65. In the years to come, I hope there will be Bill Rancic towers right alongside the Trump towers.

Bill Rancic

#66. Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#67. It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

Warren Buffett

#68. I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

Sidney Poitier

#69. I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

Catherynne M Valente

#70. they expect the first mammoth in 5,000 years to be born.

Yuval Noah Harari

#71. That's not a plan. That's a way to get a death so famously stupid that they'll be laughing about it in alehouses for a hundred years to come, Makin said.

Mark Lawrence

#72. I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins.

Shereen El Feki

#73. Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius

#74. I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

Meg Rosoff

#75. Steven Pinker, a prominent Harvard professor who has devoted more than ten years to studying the decline in violence, the conclusion is evident: We live in the most peaceful era ever.

Jurriaan Kamp

#76. Countless doctors have drawn little tic-tac-toe grids for my parents over the years to try to explain the genetic lottery to them. Geneticists

R.J. Palacio

#77. It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.

Al Jardine

#78. For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.

Jim Bouton

#79. As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

Anthony De Mello

#80. Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

Marcel Achard

#81. It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

Warren Zevon

#82. I believe, in the years to come, America will look to Rwanda as a very bright light of hope: a country that has been restored by the healing hands of God., ,

Tracey Lawrence

#83. Most things happen for a reason and it may take years to discover why, but this is almost always for the better.

Ursula A. Ciller

#84. Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.

William John Locke

#85. I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

Eve Ensler

#86. It took me three and a half years to become a mom, so it makes me feel so good to know I'm giving my baby the best chance I can to develop a strong immune system and live a healthy life.

Constance Marie

#87. Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#88. An entire tree swept past the door, upside down, its roots sprouting upward like horns. "You see that?" "Yeah. It's gonna wake up in the middle of the ocean, say, 'Wait a second. This isn't right.' "'I'm supposed to be over there.' "'Took me years to get that hill looking the way I wanted it.

Dennis Lehane

#89. It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

Andrew Lakey

#90. You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.

W. Kamau Bell

#91. Sam Keen points out that Zen masters spend years to reach an enlightenment that every natural child already knows - the total incarnation of sleeping when you're tired and eating when you're hungry. What irony that this state of Zen-like bliss is programmatically and systematically destroyed.

John Bradshaw

#92. I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

Diana Gabaldon

#93. Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago ... that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy.

Louis C.K.

#94. It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

Bill Gates

#95. For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably.

Kingsley Amis

#96. I only want to warn you that even the best can do one harm when one isn't ripe enough in years to receive it properly.

Frank Wedekind

#97. You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.

Jason Sudeikis

#98. It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

#99. Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.

Renzo Piano

#100. Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.

Charles Kettering