Years Long

Famous quotes containing the words years and/or long:

“The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor, elastic, not to be surrounded. Man helps himself by larger generalizations. The lesson of life is practically to generalize; to believe what the years and the centuries say against the hours; to resist the usurpation of particulars; to penetrate to their catholic sense.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

““You will go a long journey,
In a strange bed take rest,”
And a dark girl will kiss you....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)