For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. Votes: 4
T. S. EliotI would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder. Votes: 4
Robert ClarkYouth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. Votes: 4
Bill VaughanI taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of YardleyWe gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonWe lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonAt the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits. Votes: 1 Bernie Sanders
If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous. Votes: 4 Jennifer Michael Hecht
The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going back to Sophocles and Euripedes. I believe the only - the only - separation for being a dramatist is reading drama. Votes: 1 John Logan
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States. Votes: 1 Harri Holkeri
I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp. Votes: 1 Eric Christian Olsen
In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism. Votes: 4 Jinato Hu
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service. Votes: 1 Chen Shui-bian
30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me. Votes: 2 Gig Young
Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other date? Votes: 1 Pepe Eliaschev
You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders. Votes: 2 Howie Carr
I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works. Votes: 4 Arnold Schwarzenegger
I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history. Votes: 1 Asghar Farhadi
It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff. Votes: 1 Gil Gerard
Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it. Votes: 1 Eric Idle
I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me. Votes: 1 Alonzo Mourning
What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years. Votes: 4 Bobby Rahal
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun. Votes: 1 Philip Johnson
I think the climate has been changing for billions of years. Votes: 4 Buzz Aldrin
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. Votes: 4 Liza Minnelli
Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the Rings,' an awesome time to be in film school. Votes: 4 Evan Daugherty
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years. Votes: 4 Salman Rushdie
In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality. Votes: 3 Rashida Jones
Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. Votes: 1 Dan Stevens
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. Votes: 3 Arne Duncan
I was lucky in my early years to play for a Karnataka team that was trying to forge itself into a strong side, and they were years of fun and learning. In the Indian team, I was fortunate to be part of a wonderful era when India played some of its finest cricket at home and abroad. Votes: 1 Rahul Dravid
Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge. Votes: 3 Isaac Watts
I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember. Votes: 1 Brett Favre
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor. Votes: 4 John Poindexter
Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority. Votes: 3 Bill Gates
Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball. Votes: 2 Pete Rose
We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem. Votes: 2 Monica Johnson
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Votes: 2 Oliver Wendell Holmes
My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.' Votes: 4 Seth Rogen
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example. Votes: 1 Eric Schmidt
The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage. Votes: 3 Richard LaGravenese
After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York. Votes: 2 R. L. Stine
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. Votes: 1 Mary Wesley
Well, I think I learned a valuable lesson. Always take down your Christmas decorations after new years or you might get filleted by a hooker from God. Votes: 3 Dean Winchester
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach. Votes: 2 Bobby Bowden
Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them. Votes: 1 Lesley Gore
I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years. Votes: 1 Daniel Boulud
I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right? Votes: 3 Catherine O'Hara
In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time. Votes: 1 Sheryl Sandberg
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. Votes: 2 Antonin Artaud
When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job. Votes: 3 Mickey Rooney
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'. Votes: 4 James Patterson
I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million. Votes: 1 Steve Case
Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now. Votes: 2 Carlos Ghosn
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public. Votes: 6 Carlisle Floyd
I saw 'Star Wars' when I was seven years old, and it changed my life. Votes: 1 James Altucher
My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film. Votes: 4 Li Bingbing
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. Votes: 2 Anthony Bourdain
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War. Votes: 1 Jurgen Habermas
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. Votes: 4 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket Votes: 3 Groucho Marx
I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules. Votes: 5 Kieran Culkin
There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man. Votes: 4 Frank Sinatra
What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again. Votes: 3 Junot Diaz
He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely. He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost, a thing that can haunt a man's days and nights. Votes: 2 Cathie Pelletier
I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers. Votes: 6 Danica McKellar
As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago. Votes: 4 Simon Fowler
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields. Votes: 4 Jackson Browne
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. Votes: 1 Asa Gray
Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. Votes: 4 Jack Nicklaus
In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu. Votes: 1 Benjamin Netanyahu
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day. Votes: 1 David Josiah Brewer
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.' Votes: 4 Max Lucado
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. Votes: 4 Edgar Allan Poe
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. Votes: 4 Mel Gibson
Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect. Votes: 8 Bob Etheridge
I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement. Votes: 4 Hans Frank
The years of wisdom in a man's age are where the true meanings of his life lie. Votes: 3 Edmond Mbiaka
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. Votes: 4 George Orwell