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)