Top 1200 Two Years Ago Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Myself, I happen to be married to an African-American woman, and we're together 17 years. We took a few trips to the South 15 years ago, and we were sobered by some of the reactions people had - how subtle or not-so-subtle their reactions were.

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years...or as long as it takes to win.

Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that the Vedic Aryans could have conceived of such a vast span of time over 3,500 years ago that would be similar to the same figure estimated by science today.

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.

Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.

The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator.

A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.

My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.

Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in the language of the common person so that Joe, who didn't even go to college, can sit down and read my book and get it and apply it to his life.

This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

Ricky Hatton would knock Khan out. 5 years ago or now.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Twenty years ago I brought young, unknown film maker Joe Wright with me to a private show of 'Nil by Mouth.' Gary Oldman asked me if he was any good. I said, 'give it a few years and he'll direct you in a film that will win you an Oscar.'

Jenks kept me alive for two years through two death threats, a crazy banshee, and at least two serial killers. Its about time I return the favor! And if I can't, then I can sit by his bed and hold his hand as he dies, 'cause I've had plenty of practice doing that, too!

Years and years ago, I was obsessed with these Pamela Love necklaces, and they had a claw, like an eagle claw, which was silver. Then I found one on this random website. I thought it was a fake claw, and when it arrived, it was a real one, cut off from the animal! It came to my house, and it was disgusting; it was a chicken claw or something.

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different.

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.

years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.

I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."

Things can feel pretty extra after having a baby. A lot of it is probably hormones. Two under two and three kids in four years has been truly humbling.

I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

I stopped seeing mainstream films 15 years ago. They are absolutely unbearable.

Ji-Sung Park is probably not as young as he was when he arrived at Old Trafford all those years ago.

I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before 'Dukes of Hazzard' started.

There's a design book I got years ago that had a statue of a dog with a bunch of hats on it, and I just obsessively fell in love with it. For years I searched for that dog. One day I walked into an antique shop in La Jolla and I found a white dog that I could put hats on!

I am always going to have problems with the paparazzi. I have had two men outside my house for the last two years, which is frightening at times, but that is my life unfortunately.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others.

The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd.

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.