Years Quotes - Page 15

• I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

  Maggie Lawson

  Softball, Baseball, Brother

  "James Caan, Maggie Lawson Chat New ABC Comedy BACK IN THE GAME". Caryn Robbins, www.broadwayworld.com. October 2, 2013.

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• The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.

  F.B. Meyer

  Heart, Funeral, Cry

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• I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off because I was afraid somebody out there was training harder. That's the feeling I go through every day - Am I not doing what somebody else is doing? Is someone out there training harder than I am? I can't live with myself if someone is.

  Marion Jones

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

  Matthew Modine

  Funny, Softball, School

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• I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.

  Anjelica Huston

  Niece, Kids, Two

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• I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

  Bob Balaban

  Sister, Niece, Father

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• I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

  Carey Mulligan

  Niece, Thinking, London

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• It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you
  Because you are always so dear
  You are so dear no matter the year
  But all throughout each day of the year
  There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you
  could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.

  George Orwell

  Niece, Feelings, Bishops

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• I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Ass, Has Beens

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.572, Penguin

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• Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

  Harpo Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  "Harpo Speaks!".

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• I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.

  Mick Jagger

  America, Funny Money, Taxes

  "Time is on our side: A look back at the Rolling Stones". www.interviewmagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Witty, Past

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• I know not whether Laws be right,
  Or whether Laws be wrong;
  All that we know who be in jail
  Is that the wall is strong;
  And that each day is like a year,
  A year whose days are long.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Strong, Wall

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 1 (1898)

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• I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers and students both-but they did not come up with many new concepts. They weren't invited to come up with new concepts. Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Teaching, Optimistic

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, June 1, 1999.

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• See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money. Right now the value is in non-callable bonds. Most bonds are callable so when they start going up in price, the debtor calls them away from you. But the non-callable bonds, especially those non-callable for 25-30 years, can go way up in price if interest rates go way down.

  John Templeton

  Ocean, Optimistic, Debtors

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• In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me to become more and more humble because statistics showed that when I advised a client to buy one stock to replace another, about one-third of the time the client would have done better to ignore my advice. In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

  John Templeton

  Humble, Optimistic, Humility

  "Sir John Templeton: Mixing Science, Religion, and Humility" by T George Harris, sirjohntempleton.org. September 01, 2001.

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• As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Fashion, Destiny, Eight

  Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

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• Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.

  Janet Morris

  Responsibility, Destiny, World

  Janet Morris (1989). “Tempus Unbound”, Pocket Books

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• We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Wall, Father

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

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• That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

  Dakota Fanning

  Kissing, Boys, Names

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• I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

  Otis Blackwell

  Birthday, Redneck, College

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• This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.

  Barack Obama

  Safe Haven, Air, Support

  "Obama Declares War on Syria". Interview with Mike Whitney, www.counterpunch.org. September 12, 2014.

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• In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

  Joan Didion

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 05, 2011

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• I believed that doing what the other person wanted was love. I did that, and for more than a thousand years I have regretted it. I don't want to repeat the same mistake.

  Kim Dong-joo

  Drama, Mistake, Want

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• There is a streetlight in front of Soo Yeon's house. From there to home, it takes 280 steps. If we have been walking away from each other for 14 years, how many steps will it take to get back? If she doesn't come even if I wait, that doesn't mean that she abandoned me.. it means she is on her way.

  Ha Jung-woo

  Drama, Home, Mean

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