#year

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#forty #judgment #reigns #thirty #twenty

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#burned #daughters #deep #dna #fear

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#even #friend #love #married #partner

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell. ↗

— Julian Clary

#because #dead #died #grandfather #him

There have been many moments over the last year when I thought it was all over. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#i #last #last year #many #moments

President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#could #damage #did #economy #found

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#associated #been #communities #confess #country

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know? ↗

— Joe Cocker

#blues #fat #god #guy #i

It took me 40 years to write my first book. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#first #me #took #write #years