Quotes about year
A collection of quotes on the topic of year, time, timing, doing.
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— Marek Żukow-Karczewski Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist 1961
Tenczyn - a "Bastille"-type castle of the Tenczyński family, "Aura" 2, 1990-02, p. 19-21. http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-7ab5a4ef-bee9-490b-8838-4917699dfedc?q=d88195b-abee-4385-bd61-43f313e62483$6&qt=IN_PAGE

— Marek Żukow-Karczewski Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist 1961
Weather anomalies in Poland's past, "Aura" 7, 1990-07, p. 6-8. http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-545c16f1-b48e-46e2-a0d2-6a4babeeeea0?q=89e2d267-8e35-4c74-b570-25a195714d27$8&qt=IN_PAGE

„What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway!“
— Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997

„Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980

— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
Variant: When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

— Harry Styles English singer, songwriter, and actor 1994
In conversation with Timothée Chalamet for i-D Magazine (2 November 2018) https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/evwwma/harry-styles-interviews-timothee-chalamet-photos

— Dwayne Johnson American actor and professional wrestler 1972
The Rock's return to WWE Raw as host of WrestleMania XXVII (14 February, 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ejiG5-BtA&feature=related.

„Life is short, but the years are long.“
— Robert A. Heinlein, book Methuselah's Children
Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)

„It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.“
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
Quoted in: Peter Erskine, Rick Mattingly (1998), Drum Perspective, p. 73.
Alternative forms:
"At eight, I was Raphael", he used to say. "It took me a whole lifetime to paint like a child"
From Picasso, my grandfather, Marina Picasso (2001).
Attributed from posthumous publications
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Variant: You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them, than in two years by making them interested in you.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), p. 52 (in 1998 edition)

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
As quoted in Melody Maker (1991-09-14).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

„Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.“
— Coco Chanel French fashion designer 1883 - 1971
As quoted in Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets (1971)

— Jennifer Aniston television and film actress from the United States 1969
Interview for Vogue magazine (December 2008)

— Cristiano Ronaldo Portuguese association football player 1985
[BBC Sport, Cristiano Ronaldo: I'm the best player in the world, 5 November 2015, 4 February 2018, http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/34737914]
In an interview with the BBC ahead of the release of Ronaldo.

— Clandestine Culture American artist 1970
http://artdistricts.com/clandestine-culture-between-street-art-and-social-activism/

— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
in a letter to Frédéric Bazille: as cited by K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 22
1850 - 1870

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
to Michael Azerrad in an interview from 1992 or 1993, in Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Interviews (1989-1994), Video

— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020
A speech after Bryant's last game, 13 April 2016, posted on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg0mxPXIpLY&t=5s.

„Through years of my prime
I walked with a heart
crazy about love.“
— Suman Pokhrel Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist 1967
<span class="plainlinks"> The Tajmahal and my Love http://www.best-poems.net/love_poems/the_taj_mahal_amp_my_love.html/</span>
From Poetry

— Bertolt Brecht German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898 - 1956
Mother Courage
Mother Courage and Her Children (1939)

— Jane Goodall British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934
In response to: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?" Discover Magazine interview with Virginia Morell (28 March 2007)

— José Mourinho Portuguese association football player and manager 1963
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1716/champions-league/2009/02/23/1122426/italy-v-england-10-classic-jose-mourinho-quotes
Chelsea FC

— Marie Antoinette last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution 1755 - 1793
Responding to the priest who had accompanied her to the foot of the guillotine, who had whispered, "Courage, madame! Now is the time for courage." Quoted in Women of Beauty and Heroism (1859) by Frank B. Goodrich, p. 301.
Variant translations:
Courage! The moment when my ills are going to end is not the moment when courage is going to fail me.
To the juror, Abbé Girard, shortly before her death, quoted in Marie-Antoinette a la Conciergerie (du ler août au 16 octobre 1793) 2nd edition (1864) by M. Émile Campardon
Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
As quoted in Marie Antoinette (2008) by Jane Bingham, p. 39

— Grigori Rasputin Russian mystic 1869 - 1916
Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916

— David Brewster British astronomer and mathematician 1781 - 1868
His last words, as quoted in The Home Life of Sir David Brewster (2010), by his daughter, Margaret Maria Gordon. Cambridge University Press. Chapter XXI.
— Scott Cawthon American independent video game designer 1971

— Dwayne Johnson American actor and professional wrestler 1972
The Rock's return to WWE Raw as host of WrestleMania XXVII (14 February, 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ejiG5-BtA&feature=related.

„It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.“
— Lionel Messi Argentine association football player 1987

„There are years that ask questions and years that answer.“
— Zora Neale Hurston, book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 3, p. 21.

— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born

— Emily Brontë, book Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff (Ch. XIV).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Context: I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine; if he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that house-trough as her whole affection be monopolized by him. Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse. It is not in him to be loved like me; how can she love in him what he has not?

„Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.“
— Yves Saint Laurent fashion designer 1936 - 2008

„For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.“
— T.S. Eliot, book Four Quartets
Variant: For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
()
Source: Four Quartets
— Mary Oliver American writer 1935 - 2019
Variant: Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Source: Thirst

„And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been“
— Rainer Maria Rilke Austrian poet and writer 1875 - 1926

— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018
British Telecom advertisement (1993), part of which was used in Pink Floyd's Keep Talking (1994) and Talkin' Hawkin'<nowiki/> (2014)
Context: For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

— Lynn Margulis American evolutionary biologist 1938 - 2011
Source: Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution

„My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.“
— Rodney Dangerfield American actor and comedian 1921 - 2004
Variant: My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

— Louise L. Hay, book You Can Heal Your Life
Variant: You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Source: You Can Heal Your Life
— Anthony Capella British writer 1962
Source: The Food of Love

„Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
From Cosmic Religion: with Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931), Albert Einstein, pub. Covici-Friede. Quoted in The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press; 2nd edition (May 30, 2000); Page 208, ISBN 0691070210
1930s

— Jopie Huisman Dutch painter 1922 - 2000
translation, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
version in original Dutch / citaat van Jopie Huisman, in het Nederlands: Door de jaren heen heb ik van alles en nog wat bewaard aan dingen en voorwerpen die ik in mijn leven in de handel tegenkwam, als ze gevoelswaarde voor me hadden. Altijd eenvoudig gebruiksgoed en gereedschap van de boer, de smid, de timmerman, de bakker enzovoorts. Dingen waarin ik de strijd om het bestaan het duidelijkst weerspiegeld zag vond ik het mooist.. ..afgetrapte oude schoenen, broeken, jassen, hoeden en kindervestjes, die ik in de vodden vond, vaak tot in den treure versteld en opgelapt.
Source: Jopie de Verteller' (2010) - postumous, p. 19

— Frédéric Chopin Polish composer 1810 - 1849
As quoted in his letter to his father, dated December 6th 1817[citation needed]

— Takeda Shingen Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period 1521 - 1573
William Scott Wilson, Gregory Lee. Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors, 1982. p 95

— Maynard James Keenan musician 1964
Aidin Vaziri (January 2, 2009) "Maynard James Keenan: Hard rocker, winemaker. 5 Questions.", San Francisco Chronicle, p. E3.

— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm

— Michael Bloomberg American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City 1942
http://mikebloomberg.com/en/issues/education/mayor_michael_bloomberg_delivers_slate_60_dinner_keynote_address_at_william_j_clinton_presidential_library
Philanthropy

„I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.“
— Hedy Lamarr Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping 1914 - 2000
Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

— Al Capone American gangster 1899 - 1947
As quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie, p. 26

— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.flixster.com/actor/leonardo-di-caprio/leonardo-dicaprio-quotes

— Charlie Parker American jazz saxophonist and composer 1920 - 1955
As quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It (1955) edited by by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, p. 379

„Congratulations, you have won
It's a year's subscription of bad puns.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
Opinion.
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)

— Ronda Rousey American judoka, mixed martial artist, professional wrestler and actress 1987
"6 Feminist Quotes From Ronda Rousey That Prove She's More Than Just A Trash Talker", in Bustle.com (3 August 2015) http://www.bustle.com/articles/101566-6-feminist-quotes-from-ronda-rousey-that-prove-shes-more-than-just-a-trash-talker

— Hayao Miyazaki Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka 1941
on the topic of hand-drawn animation (2005) The Guardian article http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/14/japan.awardsandprizes
On Animation
— Marion Woodman Canadian writer 1928 - 2018
Source: Bone: Dying into Life (2000), p. 165

— Gianluigi Buffon Italian association football player 1978
Gianluigi Buffon, as quoted in Football Italia (07/07/29)

— Anthony Hopkins Welsh stage and television actor 1937
"Sir Anthony Hopkins: I couldn't be an atheist". https://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2011/02/11/sir-anthony-hopkins-i-couldnt-be-an-atheist/ (February 11, 2011)

— Magic Johnson American basketball player 1959
Then & Now: Magic Johnson http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/cnn25.tan.johnson/index.html

— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 2 : Transformed nonconformist

— Antonin Scalia former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1936 - 2016
Board of County Commissioners, Wabaunsee County, Kansas, v. Umbehr, 518 U.S. 668 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=U20028&friend=oyez, No. 94-1654 (1996, dissenting); decided June 28, 1996.
1990s

„And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
This quote is often misattributed to Lincoln. The earliest instance that Quote Investigator could locate was "in an advertisement in 1947 for a book about aging by Edward J. Stieglitz, M.D". The advertisement for “The Second Forty Years” which ran in the Chicago Tribune newspaper read like this: The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years! (Compare 1947 March 16, Chicago Tribune, “How Long Do You Plan to Live?”, [Advertisement for the book "The Second Forty Years" by Edward J. Stieglitz, M.D.], p. C7, Chicago, Illinois. (ProQuest)). Source of misattribution: It’s Not the Years in Your Life That Count. It’s the Life in Your Years - Abraham Lincoln? Adlai Stevenson? Edward J. Stieglitz? Anonymous? by Quote Investigator on July 14, 2012 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/14/life-years-count/
To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run.
Adlai Stevenson II, Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954) http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/stevenson/adlai1954.html. This has also been paraphrased "What matters most is not the years in your life, but the life in your years" and misattributed to Abraham Lincoln and Mae West.
Adlai Stevenson II, "If I Were Twenty-One" in Coronet (December 1955).
Misattributed
Variant: It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

— Friedrich Hölderlin, book Hyperion
Hyperion
Context: What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.

— Chris Martin musician, co-founder of Coldplay 1977
http://www.metroguiltypleasures.com/metro/coldplays-chris-martin-is-a-modern-day-shakespeare-says-jay-z/ source