#years

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#after #always #aware #become #gone

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#against #back #because #believe #century

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#ago #character #christian #culture #decisively

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray. ↗

— James Meade

#been #close #geneva #gilbert #gone

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#i #just #name #obviously #queen

For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#bring #country #entering #entry #few

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#before #changes #country #degree #did

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#been #i #old #somebody #time

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#carry #claimed #could #i #little

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#few #in the past #music #past #square