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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. — Robert Southey

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years. — Annie Lennox

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. — Michael Palin

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself. — H.L. Mencken

I've found out more in this one cursed night than I'd have learned in twenty years of living. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In twenty years I've found only one intelligent man in the whole town, and he's mad. — Anton Chekhov

I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms. Then after twenty years, she left. — Jessica Fortunato

Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color. — Van Jones

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five. — Guy Pearce

Fucking Julia." I flung my long hair back over my shoulder, hiding the fresh bite. Twenty-eight years old with a hickie. Awesome. — Eliza Lentzski

The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact — Christina Baker Kline

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. — Five For Fighting

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man. — Patrick Ness

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. — George Bernard Shaw

There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old. — J. Courtney Sullivan

Twenty years ago. First, when you take a static picture of society, people — Ben Goldacre

Throughout his twenty-eight years on the island, goats are as wild as it gets. — Richard T. Nash

Boys," I mutter tolerantly across the years to Saleem-at-twenty-four, "will be boys. — Salman Rushdie

All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know. — Eckhart Tolle

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book. — Curtis Sittenfeld

And like most other overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making. Of — Sam Walton

Two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II, — Fulton J. Sheen

Came out my mama's pussy, I'm on welfare. Twenty-six years old, still on welfare. — Ol' Dirty Bastard

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom ... for trying to change the system from within — Leonard Cohen

I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years. — Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

Layne knew he was in love with her. Not only that, he'd never stopped loving her. Not once, not for a second, not for twenty-one years.
Fuck him. — Kristen Ashley

There have been more people saved in the past twenty, thirty, or forty years around the world than at any other time in recorded church history. — Michael Brown

I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. — Gillian Flynn

We should confide in each other. We shouldn't keep things fro each other. I mean, we've known each other for over twenty years,for God's sake. — Sophie Kinsella

I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one. — David Bergen

I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years. — Thelma Houston

Wow. I'm twenty years old. Rene Descartes invented analytic geometry in his early twenties. Talk about pressure. — Anna Kay Akana

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old. — Chris Robinson

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. — Thomas Jefferson

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me. — Scott Joplin

I finally understood - nearly twenty years too late. — Gillian Flynn

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years! — Peter Diamandis

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness. — Bao Dai

We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last sixty years."4 — Neil Postman

He supposed he was fascinated by that commonplace sense of history that anyone can feel glancing through the fresh news of ten or twenty years ago. — Stephen King

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge ... — Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return. — Anne Lamott

In the seventeenth century, in less than forty years, twenty-six lakes were emptied. — Edmondo De Amicis

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out. — James Reston

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast. — David Luiz

What's twenty years, fifty years in the life of Egypt?
As long as some of us hold on and do what we can. — Ahdaf Soueif

Miss Barnes clearly didn't know what in the world to do. She was twenty-four years old, for heaven's sake. — Liane Moriarty

Council housing, once the cherished centrepiece of Bevanite socialism, took just twenty years for successive governments to pick apart. — Lynsey Hanley

or less in bits. Constance, his wife, was then twenty-three years old, — D.H. Lawrence

Changing the way we have lived for twenty or forty or sixty years is nothing short of a revolution. 4. — Peter Scazzero

There is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year. — Philip Toshio Sudo

My name is Lilith, I'm twenty six years old and besides working for my father, I don't do much. — Rachel Spanswick

Americans have finally heard about Dresden," said Rumfoord, twenty-three years after the raid. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. — Frederick Douglass

Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before. — Meredith Brooks

TWENTY YEARS AFTER the end of air travel, the caravans of the Traveling Symphony moved slowly under a white-hot sky. — Emily St. John Mandel

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one. — Stephen King

Working in a lab for twenty years has left me with two stories: the one that I have to write, and the one that I want to. Science is an institution — Hope Jahren

If you waited twenty-six years to have sex, you're probably not going to copulate with a stranger. — Shayla Black

For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane. — Gloria Steinem

For many people "twenty years of experience" is really one year of experience repeated twenty times. — Reid Hoffman

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all. — Julian Fellowes

The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one. — Nastassja Kinski

A Federal research project selected 1,600 children who had been abused or neglected and followed them for nearly twenty years. — Gavin De Becker

How do you leave someone who has been such an important part of your life for twenty-eight years, someone you love more than life itself? — K.S. Ruff

Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago. — William J. Clinton

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms. — Brad Gilbert

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years. — Ingrid Bergman

Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby. — A.B. Shepherd

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. — Robert Genn

It's arguable that Ayn Rand's finest achievement was crashing the economy twenty-five years after her death. — Jarett Kobek

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years. — R. Lee Ermey

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer. — Ted Cruz

In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old. — Victor Hugo

By God, if I were twenty years younger," he thundered, "I'd drag you outside and horsewhip you!" Steven — Linda Lael Miller

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn. — Leo Tolstoy

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers. — Edward Abbey

If she had learned anything twenty-five years, it was that money wasn't worth much if you didn't have anyone to share it with. — Erin McCarthy

We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed. — Tug McGraw

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now? — Janis Joplin

A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years. — Rich Hall

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks. — Peter Benchley

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy? — Freddie Mercury

Her children by herself after twenty years of an abusive. — Rhonda Byrne

Graham Greene once said that life was lived in the first twenty years and the remainder was just reflection. So — Paul Kalanithi

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I also think that filmmakers understand, we don't have to make twenty movies a year, we make four to six. — Thomas Tull

Rose has a good heart, of course, especially for one that has been broken every week for the past twenty years. — Jonathan Rice

I had liefer twenty years/Skip to the broken music of my brains/Than any broken music thou canst make. — Alfred Tennyson

But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure. — Johnston McCulley

A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage. — Honore De Balzac

Naomi Isabelle Knox. Lead guitarist for Amatory Riot. Twenty-three years old. Hot as hell. Mean as sin. — C.M. Stunich

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years. — W.C. Fields

I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market. — Barry Corbin

Blue eyes as level as a foot rule, with wrinkles at the corners - the product of humour and of twenty years' staring at a thousand horizons. — Nicholas Monsarrat

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris

Girl scrubs your toilets for twenty-three years, you begrudge her the life she had when you weren't around. — Lauren Groff

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight. — Paula McLain