Quotes about year
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“I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me”

Koren Zailckas (1980) American writer

Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Dreams, Thinking, Housing

“Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware
he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Love, Life, Spring, Time

“Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.”

Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods

Source: A Walk in the Woods

“If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

Fear, Girl

“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

Time

“Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Life, World

“It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

People, Reality

“parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Parent, Learning

“A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Atlantis Complex

World

“Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

The Shortcut: 20 Stories To Get You From Here To There (2006) by Kevin A Fabiano, p. 179

Water, Time

“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Life, Failure

“I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Hope, Time, Dead

“He sweeps her hair back from her ears; he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement. He says he will never leave her, not in a million years.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

For Father

“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

Love

“At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

People, Way, Time, Reading

“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. 'Take this with you,' said Jace, 'for it can be dark in the land under the hill, and the years very long.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Boy

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

Source: I am an Emotional Creature

Love

“Why did you hit him? (Grace)
Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian)
Nice. You haven’t seen me in what, two thousand years? So, instead of a friendly, brotherly hug, I get slugged. (Eros)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

Pleasure

“Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

War

“I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey (1817)

Life, Beauty, Girl

“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”

Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) American dancer and choreographer

Beauty, Art, Effort, Learning

“Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Distant, Memory

“Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Night

“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

People, Sadness, Idea, Time

“The days are long, but the years are short.”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Mother's Day, For Parents, For Mother

“Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.”

Meg Cabot book Airhead

Source: Airhead

Life, School, Adulthood

“In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.”

Graydon Carter (1949) Canadian-born American journalist

Country

“It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that… Magnus.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Truth, Lie, Boy

“He’s a restless soul, always looking for another chance to drive,’ Nico said. ‘The last few years, he’s been my driver whenever I need one.’
‘You have a zombie chauffeur,’ Leila said.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Soul, Chance

“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Pleasure

“For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Dreams, Hope

“I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Thinking

“I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Way, Search

“Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body…”

Elizabeth Peters book Lion in the Valley

Source: Lion in the Valley

Dead

“Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?”

Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

Cosmic Trigger II : Down to Earth
Source: Cosmic Trigger 2: Down to Earth

History, Nature

“My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love, Time, Heart, Hurt

“If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

"On Reading New Books" (1825)
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

Books, Reading

“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

Speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 "War Situation" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1940/jun/18/war-situation#column_60. <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945) <br class="br">Source: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches <br class="br">Context: Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us now. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.

Men