Quotes about Forty Years

For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance. Votes: 2

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago. Votes: 2

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. Votes: 2

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Votes: 2

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Votes: 2

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. Votes: 2

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. Votes: 2

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. Votes: 2

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know. Votes: 2

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land. Votes: 2

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation. Votes: 2

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. Votes: 2

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. Votes: 2

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs? Votes: 2

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware. Votes: 2

I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!' Votes: 2

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright. Votes: 2

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce. Votes: 2

Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people. Votes: 2

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. Votes: 2

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. Votes: 2

Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it. Votes: 2

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here! Votes: 2

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama. Votes: 2

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

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?' Votes: 2

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Votes: 0

Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record, Votes: 0

I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret. Votes: 0

Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less. Votes: 0

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age. Votes: 0

My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz. Votes: 0

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. Votes: 0

God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old. Votes: 0

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. Votes: 0

My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite. Votes: 0

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. Votes: 0

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it. Votes: 0

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old. Votes: 0

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks. Votes: 0

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. Votes: 0

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands. Votes: 0

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. Votes: 0

The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet. Votes: 0

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk. Votes: 0

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential. Votes: 0

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy. Votes: 0

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. Votes: 0

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity. Votes: 0

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old. Votes: 0

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty. Votes: 0

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work. Votes: 0

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights. Votes: 0

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible. Votes: 0

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. Votes: 0

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years. Votes: 0

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies. Votes: 0

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past. Votes: 0

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Votes: 0

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. Votes: 0

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. Votes: 0

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. Votes: 0

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco. Votes: 0

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened. Votes: 0

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Votes: 0

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1. Votes: 0

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me. Votes: 0

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old. Votes: 0

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss. Votes: 0

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. Votes: 0

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something. Votes: 0

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black! Votes: 0

Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets. Votes: 0

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. Votes: 0

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion. Votes: 0

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive. Votes: 0

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon. Votes: 0

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you. Votes: 0

The trees at Cloudwalk have been my friends for forty years. I'm sure if I were sawed in half, our rings would match. Votes: 0

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions Votes: 0

No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years. Votes: 0

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least. Votes: 0

The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape. Votes: 0

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life ... Votes: 0

Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared. Votes: 0

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate. Votes: 0

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. Votes: 0

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility. Votes: 0

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody. Votes: 0

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker. Votes: 0

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. Votes: 0

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow. Votes: 0

The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities. Votes: 0

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina. Votes: 0

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: 0

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. Votes: 0

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others. Votes: 0

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time. Votes: 0

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success. Votes: 0

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy. Votes: 0

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged. Votes: 0

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. Votes: 0

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five. Votes: 0

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. Votes: 0

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy? Votes: 0

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. Votes: 0

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years. Votes: 0

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years. Votes: 0

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries. Votes: 0

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man: Votes: 0

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic. Votes: 0

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Votes: 0

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it. Votes: 0

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility. Votes: 0

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems. Votes: 0

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease Votes: 0

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it. Votes: 0

Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling. Votes: 0

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old. Votes: 0

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. Votes: 0

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay. Votes: 0

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk." Votes: 0

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it. Votes: 0

For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty. Votes: 0

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years. Votes: 0

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it. Votes: 0

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems Votes: 0

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be. Votes: 0

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church. Votes: 0

For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored. Votes: 0

I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five. Votes: 0

Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead for forty years, he's still making new records. Suck on that, Partnership for a Drug-Free America! Votes: 0

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time. Votes: 0

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old. Votes: 0