Years Long

Famous quotes containing the words years and/or long:

“There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)