#decades

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#alabama #decades #doing #found #hard

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#back #came #decades #few #fortune

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#adult #adult life #been #certainly #convinced

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#freedom #high #high time #independence #long

The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#england #greatest #i #learnt #many

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#boyhood #decades #last #life #like

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists. ↗

— Lara St. John

#art #artists #because #choose #decades

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. ↗

— Nicholas Johnson

#decades #effort #families #help #help people

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#decades #forgot #improve #lake #little

If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#brutal #control #decades #growth #like