Quotes about Years Past

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past. Votes: 4

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. Votes: 4

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization. Votes: 4

In years past, to keep their men close, women would wear a ring and bear children. It doesn't work like that today. Nowadays, how do we hold on to those we love? I've no idea. Votes: 4

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path. Votes: 4

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

It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments. Votes: 4

The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many years past, will be productive of more virtue moral and political. We may look up to Armies for our Defense, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any State should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honored. Votes: 4

For the past 9 years, the WWE has been my home! Votes: 0

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. Votes: 0

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. Votes: 0

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems. Votes: 0

Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies Votes: 0

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role. Votes: 0

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time. Votes: 0

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square. Votes: 0

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions. Votes: 0

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research. Votes: 0

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years. Votes: 0

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Votes: 0

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years. Votes: 0

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything. Votes: 0

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. Votes: 0

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years. Votes: 0

I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years. Votes: 0

While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient. Votes: 0

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. Votes: 0

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years. Votes: 0

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me. Votes: 0

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating. Votes: 0

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. Votes: 0

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years. Votes: 0

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man. Votes: 0

Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years Votes: 0

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children. Votes: 0

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on. Votes: 0

Over the past six years I've had many difficulties. But I never lost my passion. Votes: 0

Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years. Votes: 0

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years. Votes: 0

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was. Votes: 0

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years. Votes: 0

I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years. Votes: 0

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years. Votes: 0

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. Votes: 0

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy. Votes: 0

I have done more live events in the past twenty years than I have eaten dinner. Votes: 0

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women. Votes: 0

I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years. Votes: 0

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat. Votes: 0

If I finish tomorrow and look back on the past years, I' d say, 'that wasn't bad'. Votes: 0

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years. Votes: 0

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst. Votes: 0

Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years. Votes: 0

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening. Votes: 0

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together. Votes: 0

Just look at the past. Hillary Clinton is done nothing. She's been there for 35 years. She's done nothing. Votes: 0

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity. Votes: 0

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Votes: 0

Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation, Votes: 0

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians. Votes: 0

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street. Votes: 0

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one. Votes: 0

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day. Votes: 0

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns. Votes: 0

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. Votes: 0

I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting. Votes: 0

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it. Votes: 0

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet. Votes: 0

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens. Votes: 0

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years. Votes: 0

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back? Votes: 0

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes. Votes: 0

I've spent the past two years looking for my ex-girlfriend’s killer… but no one will do it. Votes: 0

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years. Votes: 0

People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs. Votes: 0

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States. Votes: 0

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history. Votes: 0

Anything past 90 days constitutes 'severe,' but all late payments stay on your report for seven years if reported. Votes: 0

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking. Votes: 0

In fact, among the 1000 titles which I have recorded in the past 35 years, there are less than 10% of classical titles. Votes: 0

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices. Votes: 0

Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years. Votes: 0

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name. Votes: 0

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance. Votes: 0

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. Votes: 0

Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years. Votes: 0

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? Votes: 0

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex Votes: 0

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it. Votes: 0

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation. Votes: 0

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me. Votes: 0

The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that. Votes: 0

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. Votes: 0

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years. Votes: 0

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. Votes: 0

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase. Votes: 0

As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world. Votes: 0

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis. Votes: 0

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years. Votes: 0

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. Votes: 0

My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds. Votes: 0

Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way. Votes: 0

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana. Votes: 0

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. Votes: 0

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history. Votes: 0

Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years. Votes: 0

Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter. Votes: 0

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? Votes: 0

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today. Votes: 0

Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record. Votes: 0

Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world. Votes: 0

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story. Votes: 0

Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years. Votes: 0

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. Votes: 0

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years. Votes: 0

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself. Votes: 0

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists? Votes: 0

I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck. Votes: 0

Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home. Votes: 0

For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media... But the internet is becoming the umbrella. Votes: 0

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years. Votes: 0

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. Votes: 0

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself. Votes: 0

I've done nothing for the past five years but try to be the hero who protects her. The problem? Heroines don't need protecting. Votes: 0

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. Votes: 0

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years. Votes: 0

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal. Votes: 0

The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years. Votes: 0

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema). Votes: 0

Conservative activists want [Stephen] Bannon, somebody who has spent much of the past two years trying to destroy speaker of the House, Paul Ryan. Votes: 0

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color. Votes: 0

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life. Votes: 0

Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit. Votes: 0

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years. Votes: 0

If you haven't gotten a raise in the past couple years for a job well done, it might be time to ask for one. Votes: 0

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden until the past few years. Votes: 0

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game. Votes: 0

One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity. Votes: 0

What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you Votes: 0

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved. Votes: 0

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to. Votes: 0

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Votes: 0

When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew. Votes: 0

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past. Votes: 0

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted. Votes: 0

We pretty much had crazy weather, historically speaking, in every location we filmed [The Fourth Phase]. Nothing has been normal in the past three years. Votes: 0

The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending. Votes: 0

I care about football, so what Im seeing regarding the image of FIFA, not only now but in the past years, I dont like it, Votes: 0

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it. Votes: 0

Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh. Votes: 0

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it! Votes: 0

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years. Votes: 0

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: 0

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking. Votes: 0

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop. Votes: 0

In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country. Votes: 0

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour. Votes: 0

Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living. Votes: 0

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog. Votes: 0

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. Votes: 0

For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult. Votes: 0

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived. Votes: 0

The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit Votes: 0

You may have noticed over the years that the UN became a bit more media-friendly, a bit more open to the media than in the past. Votes: 0

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date. Votes: 0

...warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases... Votes: 0

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home. Votes: 0

I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently. Votes: 0

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world. Votes: 0

One of the most refreshing changes I've seen in recent years is the blending of genres - the pushing past the hard-and-fast lines of specific publishing categories. Votes: 0

Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years ... France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament. Votes: 0

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers. Votes: 0

There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts. Votes: 0

The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period. Votes: 0

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble Votes: 0

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even." Votes: 0

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one. Votes: 0

I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing. Votes: 0

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years. Votes: 0

I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids. Votes: 0

The important thing is that ever since I realized all the wrongs that I had done, I have been trying to correct them for the past 27 years. Votes: 0

I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it. Votes: 0

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years. Votes: 0

We can see how the role of mobile has changed in past 20 years. It is a perfect example of how one innovation can change an entire era. Votes: 0

We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us. Votes: 0

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even. Votes: 0

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to. Votes: 0

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online. Votes: 0

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions. Votes: 0

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful Votes: 0

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression. Votes: 0

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English. Votes: 0

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem. Votes: 0

Like so much of President Obama's decisions over the past six years, this is another photo-op with a compliant press that does not matter and will do little. Votes: 0

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. Votes: 0

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had. Votes: 0

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck. Votes: 0

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years. Votes: 0

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful. Votes: 0

I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past. Votes: 0

Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some progress in the past several years. Votes: 0

If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years. Votes: 0

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out. Votes: 0

The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than their climate models predicted. Votes: 0

It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated. Votes: 0

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books. Votes: 0

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years. Votes: 0

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert. Votes: 0

We will certainly be focused on making sure that the prosperity we have been able to accomplish in the past 8 years under the leadership of Mr. [Barack] Obama, continues. Votes: 0

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish. Votes: 0

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years Votes: 0

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai. Votes: 0

Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him. Votes: 0

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years. Votes: 0

"They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on me." Votes: 0

Ronaldo has come through for the past two or three years and is the best in Europe. I think at the moment no doubt Ronaldo is the best player. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago. Votes: 0

Over the past six years, my girlfriend and I live on our boat two or three months a year. It's just one of our seasonal homes at this point. Votes: 0

During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day. Votes: 0

There has been a kind of stereotypical 'gamer dude' that has been representative for the gamer community in the years past. But I want to spearhead or be a part of changing that. Votes: 0