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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. — James Thurber

even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age four, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. The — Jeff Atwood

I would guess that he thought and thought for at least ten years before he came up with a stupendous idea, that glory of man's inventiveness, pants. — Soseki Natsume

I'm honored to have served for 18 years as Arizona's 10th Senator - and for four terms in the House of Representatives before that. — Jon Kyl

Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart. — Anita Pallenberg

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. — William Hazlitt

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran . — Algernon Charles Swinburne

As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before. — Marianne Williamson

I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late. — Stefan Edberg

Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the Pap test. — Daniel S. Greenberg

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over. — Mats Sundin

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. — Robert K. Merton

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. — Dave Eggers

In the eight years before I became governor, there was zero net private sector job growth in New Jersey. Zero. For eight years. — Chris Christie

Now I know why Baby Suggs pondered color her last years. She never had time to see, let alone enjoy it before. — Toni Morrison

Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years. — Mike Quigley

I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement. — Jimmy Carter

This is your year to accomplish what you've never accomplished before. — Eric Thomas

But I felt sure that The Shadow of the Wind had been waiting there for me for years, probably since before I was born. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Time stretched years back and years forward, but nothing that came afterward ever had the power to wash away what came before. — Erika Johansen

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it. — Will Smith

Weren't we though? Timeless? Nothing could change what we'd had all those years before, even if the idea of what might've been lingered between us. — Renee Carlino

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky

I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before. — Arthur Lewis

Championships are not won on the night of a big event, but years before by athletes who commit themselves daily to championship principles — Dick Devenzio

There's no such thing as an ordinary human. Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before. — Stephen Moffat

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. — Dave Barry

Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before. — Dalai Lama

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success. — James Rothman

Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain. — Corneliu E Giurgea

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break. — Stephen J. Cannell

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print. — Alison Weir

Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy. — Deirdre O'Kane

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. — Natasha Trethewey

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old. — Groucho Marx

All this talk about artificial intelligence is really just hype, it will take at least fifty years before we have to let them vote. — Kenneth E. Boulding

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom. — Bela Lugosi

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18. — Tori Amos

It's clear your marriage is a happy one
Your love is solid to the core
May the years ahead be happy ones
Each one happier than before — John Walter Bratton

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City. — Misty Copeland

When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before. — Cathy Freeman

I practice yoga even when my schedule doesn't allow me to teach. I've been practicing for 17 years, since before it became hip. — Brenda Strong

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant. — Kristin Hersh

When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen. — Gillian Armstrong

For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England. — Neil Marshall

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

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. — Robert Frost

Microsoft was twelve years old before people started talking about Microsoft millionaires; Netscape was one and a half. — Michael Lewis

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. — Henry Rollins

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years. — John Grogan

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. — Mark Twain

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight. — Jilly Cooper

Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you. — Paul Gitwaza

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born. — Ricky Gervais

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States. — Helen Reddy

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films. — Walter Salles

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

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory. — Donald Ray Pollock

Like a car that's old enough to be old but not old enough to be a classic, it would be years before people would again appreciate the old town square. — K. Martin Beckner

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition. — Gale Harold

Everyone deserves 100 years of good life before starting to grow old. — Patricia Gulley

Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years? — Sara Sheridan

I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va. — Jim Toomey

I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology. — Nathan Parsons

He worked on it for over fifteen years before he died in his fifties of complications caused by pneumonia. — Liane Moriarty

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story. — Cilla Black

Many Years before without the New Technologies Life was more Peaceful and Simpler. — Jan Jansen

I see myself being 5 times hotter than I am now every year. I just focus on being hotter than the year before. — Slim Thug

Before I reached 10 years old, I knew I was going to be an artist. — Howard Terpning

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before. — Ban Ki-moon

A place we've never looked before?" Alby asked. "What do you think we've been doing for two years — James Dashner

I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again. — Ashton Irwin

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister — Margaret Thatcher

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before. — Carol P. Christ

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner. — Jerry Seinfeld

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death. — Terry Pratchett

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids. — Kourtney Kardashian

If we smoke, there's no magic number of cigarettes, or number of years, that we can smoke before we know we'll get lung cancer. — Katharine Hayhoe

I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born. — Lisa Loeb

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit. — Robert Weinberg

It seemed stupid to be pursued on foot like Homo sapiens sapiens of a hundred thousand years before. — Gregory Benford

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. — William Ralph Inge

I don't think there's a lot of carry-over from year to year. I don't think anybody cares what you did the year before. — Tom Brady

Before - for years - she had let her mind close seamlessly, like an egg, around this wrong and other wrongs. — Marie Rutkoski

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before. — William Adams

They taught me longing - Sehnsucht; made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower. — Alister E. McGrath

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children. — Monica Denise Brown

When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years. — Stephen R. Covey

If only you were born a hundred years ago, when you could have gone through days of natural labour before bleeding naturally to death, — Liane Moriarty

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much. — Lillian Hellman

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds. — Valerie Bertinelli

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is — W.B.Yeats

I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change. — Mac DeMarco

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Boys don't always make the right decisions. It takes years before they become men and wise up. — Abbi Glines

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year. — Shane McCrae