Top 1200 Forty Years Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.

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

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

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

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

I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.

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.

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

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

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

Giving birth to triplets at the age of forty-three is no walk in the park, but I had little choice. I got married at the young age of forty, and both my husband, Shirish, and I were keen to start a family soon.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty minutes.

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

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

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

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

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

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

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

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

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

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

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

For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.

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

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?

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.

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

For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.

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.

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.

I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.

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

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

Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost.

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.

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.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

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

Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.

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.

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

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.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

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

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.

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

It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.