Last Year Quotes - Page 24

• I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

  Alexander Haig

  School, Warrior, Years

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• When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

  Dwight Gooden

  Years, Giving, Fans

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• From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

  Richard Cobden

  War, Years, Government

  Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.103

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• One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

  Andrew Greeley

  Years, Yesterday, Lasts

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• The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

  James Daly

  Business, Children, Years

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• I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

  Monique Coleman

  School, Kids, Night

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• You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.

  Michael Fassbender

  Believe, Years, Car

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• I was a Liverpool fan simply because my dad followed them. Unfortunately I wasn't born when the team had their golden era, but I enjoyed watching the likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman when I was growing up. When Liverpool won the Champions League last year, I went mad. I was shouting so loud I think I woke up the entire village where I live!

  Theo Walcott

  Dad, Growing Up, Team

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• The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

  Cliff Robertson

  Winning, Years, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant.”

  Lorde

  Rap, Thinking, Years

  "Discovery: Lorde". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8  months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Years, Europe, Progress

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• I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

  Peyton Manning

  Years, Stronger, Balls

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• I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like.

  Pat Bowlen

  Years, Expectations, Lasts

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• I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

  Patricia Velasquez

  New York, Years, Lasts

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• Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

  John Denham

  Years, Age, Lasts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 6-9, The Sophy, A Tragedy, 1922.

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• Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Smartphones, Years

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• But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

  Francois Rabelais

  Years, Snow, Lasts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 723, Pantagruel (1532), Chapter XIV, 1922.

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• Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Years, Agriculture, Target

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• Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really feel any pressure to get my first one as skipper,.

  Ricky Ponting

  Years, Calendars, Lasts

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• Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.

  Peter Welch

  Law, Ideas, Years

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• Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

  Ed Markey

  Years, Doe, Lasts

  "Hardball" Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2005.

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• The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

  Joe Jonas

  Dream, Years, Judging

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• I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mistake, Vacation, Years

  "The Guardian" interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.

  LeBron James

  Years, Finals, Lasts

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