All Quotes

The year in school of a student is another factor that affects how an instructor interacts with his or her class.
‐‐ Catherine Asaro

The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.
‐‐ Damon Lindelof

The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
‐‐ Said Sayrafiezadeh

The year was 1882. The palace was the Luxembourg Palace: the ball, the Senat Bal, held at the beginning of autumn. It was still warm, and so the garden was used as well. I was the soprano. I was Lilliet Berne.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'
‐‐ Cliff Robertson

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.
‐‐ Jane Pauley

The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
‐‐ David Icke

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.
‐‐ Herbert Croly

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
‐‐ George Eliot

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
‐‐ G. Stanley Hall

The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
‐‐ Nastassja Kinski

The years have been just full of surprises for me, and a lot of fun.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.
‐‐ Jackie Stewart

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.
‐‐ Alan Arkin

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight.
‐‐ Donald A. Wollheim

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
‐‐ Arthur Henderson

The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words.
‐‐ Paul Engle

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
‐‐ Philip Warren Anderson

The years teach much which the days never know.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

'The Yes Album,' of course, was the album that put Yes' name on the worldwide stage.
‐‐ Chris Squire

The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
‐‐ Paramahansa Yogananda

The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
‐‐ Paramahansa Yogananda

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.
‐‐ Tony Randall

The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
‐‐ Quentin Crisp

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
‐‐ Mignon McLaughlin

The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
‐‐ Aristotle

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
‐‐ Edna St. Vincent Millay

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.
‐‐ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'
‐‐ Don Rickles

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
‐‐ Pearl S. Buck

The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.
‐‐ Jurgen Klinsmann

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
‐‐ Hector Hugh Munro

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.
‐‐ John Spratt

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

The young man, born to rule England, which his dying father commended to him. Once his father is dead, London will cavil. The kingdom is taken back from his son.
‐‐ Nostradamus

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
‐‐ George Santayana

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.
‐‐ Jerry Lewis

The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
‐‐ Lamar Odom