Top 1200 Seventeen Years Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

For me, the brightest years at IronPort were without a doubt the darkest years at home.

I've been a fan of Dhoni for years. I've seen him play for India for over 10 years.

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again.

Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

I have completed 23 years in the industry. All these years, I never managed to visit the Lalbaug pandal.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

My 15 years of freedom have been harder than all of my death row years combined.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices and audible burning bushes. Today he occasionally appears on a piece of toast. To state that God has become reclusive over the years would be an overwhelming understatement.

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

My fan base is really, really young. They're the youngest demographic that you can track on YouTube: 13- to 17-year-old females. But the fan mail that I get in my P.O. box, they're all from moms and from kids who are two years old, three years old, four years old.

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

I've defended my title for eight years, let's see if Ricky (Hatton) is still champion in four years.

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.

I find it baffling that for years and years I got tremendous stick for the amount of money I earned.

I just think we've had years and years of allowing our jobs to be dissipated in America, and there's no reason for it.

When people ask us how long does it take for something to manifest, we say, It takes as long as it takes you to release the RESISTANCE. Could be 30 years, could be 40 years, could be 50 years, could be a week. Could be tomorrow afternoon.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

I had nice years at Ajax, wonderful years with Milan, and won something with the national team.

What's happened is we have lost, over a period of years, short years, 70,000 factories in America.

There are things that have gone on in thr USA for years and years and have never been addressed, and they need to be.

I have spent four wonderful years with Manchester City. They have grown a lot over the years.

We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.

I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.

I played until 37-years-old and my last three or four years I learnt the most.

I want to play football for 20 more years. And then coach for 45 years after that.

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

If there's one regret I have of my time in comedy it's that I really I was so obsessed with improv for so many years and I exclusively did improv for the first 6 years or 7 years. I was doing comedy and then I started doing solo work and stand up, a bit of writing, making videos, and really going into it on that end.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

For years and years, I was doing extra work and guest spots and anything I could cobble together.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

When I was 15 years old I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, "This is what I want to do". So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.

When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

He's 78 years old... He's not the same Orrin Hatch I knew 12 years ago.

I went abroad when I was 20, three years at Chelsea, a big club. Then two years at Madrid.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

I haven't left the Philippines for many years, I haven't been in the U.S. for six years.

There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.

One of the things that I heard for years and years, never drive Russia and China together. And Obama has done that.

'99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

Years and years ago, Jon Jones was untouchable. You couldn't win a round against him.

All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.

He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who'd whistled at her but she'd pretended she hadn't heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.

Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.