Years Quotes and Sayings

All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.

Big • Different Ages Meant • Got • Influence • Me • Music • Siblings • Years

I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.

Believe • Good • Life • Live • Probably • Prose • Years • Years Old • You

When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless – or so I thought.

Finance • Job • Thought • Useless • Years

I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.

Victoria Elizabeth Schwab

Age • Athletic • Athletic Child • Child • Competitive Soccer Player • Months • Soccer • Stints Ranging • Up • Years

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

Documents • Doing • Over • Period • Record • Records • Three • Three Years • Time • Two • Years

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

Bad • Civil War Songs • Country Today • Down • Gruesome • Hatred • Past • People • Point • Today • War • Years

When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

Behalf • Find • First • Literature • Literature Twentyfive Years • Me • Work • Working • Years

I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.

Qorianka Kilcher

Acting • Better • Classes • Powerful • Powerful Voice • Singer • Voice • Years • Years Old

With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.

Phyllis Christine Cast

Book • Books • Lot • Market Quickly • Need • Next Book • Teenagers • Wait • Years • You • Youngadult Series

This entire cast, N.W.A, was an all-star group, and I really feel like people are going to look at 'Straight Outta Compton' years from now like this was an all-star cast.

O'Shea Jackson Jr

Allstar Group • Cast • Feel • Group • Look • Now • People • Straight • Years

I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.

Everyone • Evolves • Frothy Poufy Thing • I Am • Know • Me • Silhouette • Sticks • Style • Suits • Think • Years

I was about nine years old when I first heard Wu-Tang's 'C.R.E.A.M.' Before that, I didn't know anything about rap or hip-hop. I was just into Korean pop.

Anything • First • Hip-Hop • Know • Nine Years • Old • Rap • Years

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

Elwyn Brooks White

Become • Before • Eighteen • Father • Time • War • Years

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

BB • Beginning • Company Thought • Dynamite • Great • King • Rock • Song • Thought • Version • Years

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.

Bone • Down • Home • Marrow • Old • Once • Open • Right • Trying • Years • You

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

Anything • Day • Ears • Every • Fool • Guitar • Music • Myself • Old • Open • Practice • Something • Swear • Time • Years

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

Blues • Kind • Music • Nobody • Old • Something • Years

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

Always • Cold • Cold War • Confrontation • Intense • Military • War • Years

It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.

Achievement • American • Colony • Historical • Leader • Nation • Optimal • People • Phenomenon • Prosperous • Talent • Tribute • World • Years

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.

Addict • Corner • Difficult • Fight • Food • Gloomy • Kind • Me • Myself • Pain • People • Problem • Reason • Sick • Stomach • Terrible Stomach • Years