Best Year Quotes - Page 3

• You want every senior go out like the seniors did last year having the best year of their career. But that's not reality. It's not going to work that way for everybody. But I think Moe's attitude has been fantastic.

  Dan Monson

  Senior, Attitude, Thinking

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• My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

  Carl Lewis

  Years, Track, Competition

  Introduction to "Very Vegetarian" by Jannequin Bennett, 2001.

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• It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

  Greta Garbo

  Country, Thinking, Years

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

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• New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Marriage, New Year

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

  Charles Lamb

  Marriage, New Year, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.

  Betty Smith

  Hunting, Years, People

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life - those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in *high school*? High school is something *everybody* should be ready to lose.

  Meg Cabot

  Liars, School, Best Years Of Your Life

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Crowning Glory”, p.308, Pan Macmillan

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• We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

  Freeman Dyson

  Education, Years, Examination

  "The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics". Book edited by Timothy Ferris and Clifton Fadiman, 1991.

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• Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Karma, Dream

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• Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Strong, Ambition

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• Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

  Samuel Beckett

  Fire, Years, Gone

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

  Mehmet Oz

  Believe, Years, Want

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• A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

  Phil McGraw

  New Year, Years, Happy New Year

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

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• It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Country, Years, Land

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.1

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• Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

  Meg Cabot

  School, Years, Being The Best

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Airhead:”, p.216, Scholastic Inc.

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• Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspiring, New Year, Inspiration

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• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Happy

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• I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Girl, Years, Nineteen

  "The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery".

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• Let the dead Past bury its dead!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  New Year, Regret, Moving

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, New Year, Mean

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• So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Art, Mistake

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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• The best years are when you know what you're doing.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Years, Knows

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• There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

  Dorothy Parker

  Best Years Of Your Life, Syntax, Study

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• High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

  Kami Garcia

  School, Best Years Of Your Life, Drunk

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