Nine Years Quotes

• I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Sports, Pneumonia, Average

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• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Time, Morning

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

  Ford Madox Ford

  Years, Apples, Six Months

  Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.6, Booklassic

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• I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

  Howard Hughes

  Positive Thinking, Men, World

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• Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Sarcastic, Athlete

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• Let your poem be kept nine years.

  Horace

  Years, Poetry, Nine

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, , 388, 18 BC.

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• I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

  Sylvia Plath

  Years, Nine, Strange

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.40, Hamilton Books

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• The strange thing about seeing someone for first time in nine years is the way they look totally different, just for a second, a split second, and then they look at you the way they always have, as if no time has passed between you.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Years, Way, Firsts

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.179, Hachette UK

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• Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

  Paolo Giordano

  Years, Two, Silence

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• You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I’d vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn’t have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Home, Thinking, Years

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• It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last. Because, finally, she was his.

  Julie James

  Taken, Years, Stories

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.257, Penguin

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• Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she's still the only person I want to talk to.

  Julie James

  Beautiful, Girl, Years

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.146, Penguin

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• What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?

  Sebastian Barry

  Heart, Years, Sound

  "On Canaan’s Side". Book by Sebastian Barry, July 22, 2011.

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• You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine.

  Justin Halpern

  Years, Nine, Pool

  Justin Halpern (2010). “Sh*t My Dad Says”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Strength, Encouragement, Strong

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• Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive communities a seven-year-old child, or even an eight or nine-year-old child, will continue breast-feeding. Then there is a satisfaction and smoking will not be so necessary. That's why in primitive communities men are not so much interested in women's breasts; there is no problem that somebody will attack them. Nobody looks at the breasts.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Children, Taken

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• Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

  Ben Vereen

  Fall, Thinking, Years

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• My nine-year-old daughter is very creative and colorful and trendy.

  Erykah Badu

  Daughter, Years, Creative

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• It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!

  Malcolm X

  School, Years, Decision

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I don't want people to see what I've been doing at Play Cloths for nine years and built from a streetwear independence standpoint through Japanese streetwear - I don't want that to be shifted into something else.

  Pusha T

  Play, Years, People

  Source: www.nicekicks.com

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• The greatest gift that Michelle and I have received over the last eight years has been the honor of serving as your President and First Lady. Together, we fought our way back from the worst recession in 80 years, and got unemployment to a nine-year low.

  Barack Obama

  Eight, Years, Honor

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The first pair of boots I remember owning were Puma Spiders - I still have them in a cupboard at home! They were fantastic boots. I was nine-years-old and I scored about 70 goals with them in a season.

  Peter Crouch

  Home, Years, Goal

  "Peter Crouch Interview - Puma PowerCat 1.10". SoccerBible Interview, www.soccerbible.com. March 20, 2014.

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• I'm a bit sad because I'm leaving my cherished team in a city where I grew up and where I played for nine years in Santos. But I'm even happier to be facing a new challenge and for making a dream come true.

  Neymar

  Dream, Team, Years

  Source: sportslens.com

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• I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

  Katherine Paterson

  Powerful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

  Barack Obama

  War, Years, Achievement

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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