Home » Years Years 1 I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me. Willie Nelson Time, Church, Years Add to Collection 2 Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old. Will Smith Years, Old, Word Add to Collection 3 I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it. Isabel Allende Change, Woman, Years Add to Collection 4 I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing. Isabel Allende Writing, Years, Things Add to Collection 5 I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them. Isabel Allende Want, Years Add to Collection 6 I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. Will Rogers Wife, Movies, Years Add to Collection 7 What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence. Wayne Dyer Nature, Birth, Years Add to Collection 8 I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence. Wayne Dyer Thoughts, Studying, Years Add to Collection 9 Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. Warren Buffett Happy, Down, Years Add to Collection 10 I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all? Walt Whitman Universe, Years, Said Add to Collection 11 It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. Warren Buffett Reputation, Think, Years Add to Collection 12 I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years. W. Edwards Deming World, Years, Protection Add to Collection 13 I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan. Yayoi Kusama New York, Years, New Add to Collection 14 The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Arthur Schopenhauer Life, Years, Forty Add to Collection 15 There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. Meister Eckhart End, Tomorrow, Years Add to Collection 16 Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. Oscar Wilde Journalism, America, Years Add to Collection 17 We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. Winston Churchill Blood, Years, Forget Add to Collection 18 To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Winston Churchill Day, Slow, Years Add to Collection