Four Years Quotes - Page 15

• During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Beach, Wall, Military

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• When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

  Ted Lindsay

  Cheer, Team, Years

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• The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

  John Quincy Adams

  Years, Four, Miserable

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• I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

  Dr. Dre

  Mom, Reaching Up, Years

  "Dr Dre will see you now ... but you won't hear Detox until 2011" by Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

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• I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

  Valentino Rossi

  Father, Passion, Years

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• It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness. A parent can't just all of a sudden pick out an hour and talk to a son about being morally clean if the parent and child haven't spent much time together for three or four years. I think closeness is developed more quickly by having fun together.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Fun, Son

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• The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

  C. Everett Koop

  Kids, Years, Parent

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• Ever since I came to the WWE four years ago, there's been one home for Rey Mysterio. SmackDown! In this ring, in this very ring is where I won the World Title. This is my home. These are my people.

  Oscar Gutierrez

  Home, Years, Wwe

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• We're hoping that in three or four years time, we'll have to never have to answer another question regarding 'Star Wars,' ... With the series, we're trying to do 100 hours worth and answer every single thing anybody has ever dreamed of, thought of, imagined or hoped for.

  Rick McCallum

  Stars, War, Years

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• I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

  Mike Rowe

  Years, Ideas, Wish

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• It's so tiring. Even though I've worn heels and performed the choreography for four years now, I'm still not used to it. When will I be used to it? In 10 years? In 20 years?

  Kim Hyo-yeon

  Years, Snsd, Four

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• Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

  John F. Kerry

  Years, Four, Osama Bin Laden

  John Kerry’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• It's been a long four years for Junior Nation. I am happy for his fans and NASCAR. Now, let's celebrate this win and help our sport grow. I have thought that ever since we took all our eyes and undivided attention off of Dale Jr. and gave him some breathing room, he was able to be more himself and relax a bit. Some of that pressure left him. Today we just saw the 'Old Dale Jr.,' the one we've been looking for, for a long time. He is back.

  Kenny Wallace

  Sports, Eye, Winning

  "SPEED Quotes: Reaction to Earnhardt Jr.'s Breakthrough Win At Michigan". www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

  John Updike

  Years, Poetry, Four

  New York Times, April 7, 1968.

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• A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and the father says, 'He's four years old.' 'He looks at least twelve to me,' says the conductor. And the father says, 'Can I help it if he worries?

  Robert Benchley

  Father, Kids, Boys

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• In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

  Mary Oliver

  College, Years, Four

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• I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them?

  Paul Engle

  Religious, School, Sunday

  Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.151, University of Iowa Press

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• If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, College, Years

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• I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

  Mel Torme

  Years, Play, Four

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• I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program designing weapons ignited by hydrogen bombs. I didn't want to do that. I thought about how many scientists had died in World War II.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, War, Science

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• I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer.

  Kitty Kelley

  Jobs, Years, Four

  "Smudging a Senator’s Legacy" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.

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• My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Marine, Years, Skills

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• I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

  Colin Hay

  Mean, Years, Careers

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• I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

  Eric Burdon

  Art, College, Years

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• Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.

  Montel Williams

  Thinking, Years, World

  AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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