Milestone Quotes - Page 3

• Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Hero, Names, Important

  "Guardians of Ayn Rand" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. December 18, 2007.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Time, Reality

  1887 'Sixty-Eighth Birthday'.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.

  Michael Caine

  Girl, May, Lasts

  10 Copy quote

• We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

  Sherrod Brown

  Building Up, Iraq, People

  22 Copy quote

• Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

  Wendell Phillips

  Law, Land, Yesterday

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.264

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.

  Neal Shusterman

  No Friends, Icy, Doe

  7 Copy quote

• They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Years, House, Tears

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

  Jesse Jackson

  Heart, Opportunity, Race

  "Jesse Jackson on Obama: 'He struggled to create hope - and succeeded'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Wanted, Happens

  10 Copy quote

• If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

  Charley Pride

  Texas, Different, Louisiana

  7 Copy quote

• Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

  Emily Yoffe

  Ceremony

  Source: www.slate.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We had so many milestones in America. We were on our way to universal healthcare. We had gay marriage. We were talking about gender fluidity and trans issues openly and discussing them with respect. It was almost to the point where educating people about transgender rights wasn't an issue. We were including trans people as a normal part of our conversations instead of seeing their presence as this shocking thing to the system. We forgot that those things can be taken away from you because there are people in the world that, for whatever f - king reason, can't live and let live.

  Beth Ditto

  Taken, Gay, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Jobs, Waiting, Actors

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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

  Mark McGwire

  Player, Special, Fifty

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Technology, Anchors, Mars

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.166, National Geographic Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Lying, Men, Effort

  8 Copy quote

• We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer demand, not the value. As it is, we think streams are under-monetized, and we are complaining loudly about that. If the value of a stream changes, we won't alter the count because we don't want to alter the history of the program because that would impact these milestone achievements.

  Cary Sherman

  Thinking, Impact, Numbers

  Source: www.billboard.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it's with one person or with 20.

  Sandra Bullock

  Numbers, Magic, Events

  "Sandra Bullock Talks The Lake House". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. June 13, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn't fair, where life is rarely what it should be.

  Judith Viorst

  Growing Up, Home, Childhood

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes a point where milestones can become millstones and ambitions, albatrosses around our necks.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Taken, Ambition, Vices

  29 Copy quote

• The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Progress, Mankind

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't set out like, "I'm gonna do this album, and I really want a #1 album." So it wasn't even on my mind like a goal to accomplish... but as soon as it sunk it that it was an accomplishment, I realized I gotta start acknowledging milestones [I've] accomplished because sometimes you get so caught up in the bigger picture that you gotta stop and notice the steps you take to get to the bigger picture.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Accomplishment, Goal, Mind

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Believe, Entrepreneur, Waiting

  5 Copy quote

• Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting the cause, and in case I haven’t been the clear, the cause is that one half of the human race is given the same basic equal rights that the other half enjoys. Or, not given. Given back. That is not a milestone, twenty years, that I intend to go unnoticed. I want to make some noise. I want to make a joyful noise, I want to make too much noise. I want the neighbors to complain. I’m tired of being polite about something that matters so much.

  Joss Whedon

  Tired, Fighting, Years

  5 Copy quote