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Years Quotes

What sticks around, year after year.

This set looks back across stretches of time, from a fond memory tied to years spent in a particular place to a wry joke about maturity and age. It pairs naturally with our About quotes.

When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.

Quotes by John Prendergast

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

Quotes by John Prescott

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

Quotes by John Ralston Saul

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

Quotes by John Phillips Marquand

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

Quotes by John Polkinghorne

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

Quotes by John Paulson

Many companies don't exist after 25 years. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're like IBM, with a totally changing personality.

Quotes by John Morgridge

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

Quotes by John Mellencamp

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

Quotes by John Malkovich

Joe's been my drummer for 14 years, and we've been buddies for six years.

Quotes by John Mayall

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Quotes by John McCarthy

Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.

Quotes by John Kricfalusi

Most cartoons are those colors. They have been for 35 years.

Quotes by John Kricfalusi

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

Quotes by John Keegan

I did 'Sizwe Bansi is Dead' for 34 years.

Quotes by John Kani

I have been on the Urban Brew board for many years and assisted with the artistic evaluation of the various shows that were pitched to the production company.

Quotes by John Kani

I lived in Texas for 10 years.

Quotes by John Hawkes

The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.

Quotes by John Grant

'Time' was a glorious place to work in the years that I was there, from 1959 to 1964.

Quotes by John Gregory Dunne

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

Quotes by John Grisham

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Years quotes have in common?
Each of these lines marks time in years — nice years spent in a place, an age milestone, decades of obscured analysis, and years of loyal fandom, from a first impression of a place to decades-long loyalty, a range our First collection also touches on.
Is there a quote about having a good experience somewhere over the years?
Yes — one quote says, "I have had nice years in Turkey."
Is there a quote joking about an age milestone?
There is. One quote jokes, "Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old." For more playful, opinionated lines, see our About collection.
Is there a quote about how a catchy phrase can mislead for decades?
Yes — one quote warns, "A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years." For more on ideas that stick around for a long time, see our Last collection.
Is there a quote about being a longtime fan of a band?
Yes — one quote shares, "I've been a huge Megadeth fan for years." For more on things people have 'been' for a long time, see our Been collection.

One line warns that a catchy phrase can cloud clear thinking for decades, a caution also present in our First quotes, while a closing note on long-running fandom connects to Last quotes and Been quotes.