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Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them. – Brittany Murphy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got. – Richard M. Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party – Les Brown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. – Oliver Wendell Holmes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. – Dave Barry	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people. – Chinese Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. – James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father. – Clifton Paul Fadiman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune. – Jerry Della Femina	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. – Lewis Blaine Hershey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Years later, people look back upon their darkest day and say -- as Churchill said of London's war years -- 'This was our finest hour.' In a tough spot right now You may be on the very edge of winning – Guy Lynch	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late. – J. R. Platt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out. – Manley E. Rogers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years. – Margaret Hilda Thatcher	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Now the real beginnings of the 'freedom' which we have discussed for many years--and a heady freedom it is, coming after so many years of reaching outward for it--to finally discover all I had to do was reach inward, and it was there waiting all the time for me – Alisa Wells	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. – Orson Welles	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. – Cathy Ladman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future --you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. – John Green	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. – H.L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. – Bernard Baruch	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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