“Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.” YearsWarUseForceMilitaryYears AgoVoteNineChecksLengthBlankSeptemberLoneNine YearsMilitary ForceBlank Check Author:Barbara Lee
“I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.” KnowsYearsStillsTogetherFoundYears AgoVicesQuittingNineSmokeSmokingPregnantChipsPotatoesI QuitNine YearsQuit SmokingWere PregnantPotato ChipsChardonnay Author:Jean Smart
“War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes.” YearsFirstsHas BeensWarChangedThousandYears AgoInnovationNineCivilizedGenesThousand YearsElevenCivilized SocietyPrehistory Author:Gwynne Dyer
“Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?” MenFeelsYearsWellsBookYoungHouseViewsStepsFrontsHundredYears AgoStandingMovedBreatheNineThirtyFiftyPrimeTake MeEighteenThirty Years Book:Men and Wives Source: Men and Wives
“Seems like only a year ago they were married nine years!” YearsSeemsMarriedYears AgoNineNine Years Author:Jane Ace
“I got my dog three years ago because I was drunk in a pet store. We had nine cats at the time. The cats started hiding the alcohol after that.” YearsThreeDogYears AgoCatAlcoholStoresNineDrunkPetHidingThree YearsMy Dog Author:Paula Poundstone
“We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?” WantYearsKindDiesCausesCitiesStreetsCarYears AgoHorseCancerLibertarianNinePollutionEightyFeverAnklesCity StreetsOld CarTyphoid Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.” WritingYearsBeatsYears AgoEightNineNine YearsBlockheads Author:Aesop Rock
“At least here in Stockholm if you go out to any of our 4 metal clubs and talk to ten guys you can be sure nine of them play in a band! The bad thing is there is no underground movement here anymore. Going to a show with local band's ten years ago would mean at least 300 people, now you can be lucky if 50 shows up!” PeopleIfsYearsMeanPlayShowsGuyMovementLuckyBandTenYears AgoClubsNineLocalsBad ThingsMetalsStockholm Author:Johan Hegg
“I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level.” YearsTodayRememberGamesLevelsPlayerYears AgoInternationalNineNbaTwelveRemember WhenEighteen Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“Twenty-nine years ago, I came to faith in Christ after a gentleman from the Gideon's International gave me a free copy of the New Testament Bible. I started in Matthew and read all the way to Ephesians 2 when it finally clicked for me. After reading about salvation by grace through faith, I cried out to Jesus for his forgiveness and surrendered my whole life to Him. At that moment, I became a new person.” WayYearsPersonsWholeMomentsReadingJesusChristGraceYears AgoTwentiesSalvationInternationalWhole LifeNineGentlemanThat MomentCopiesCriedTestamentNew TestamentNine YearsMatthewGideonEphesians Author:Craig Groeschel
“She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.” WorldYearsChildrenLongSelfYoungThreeGrowsLossPayTakenFourSkyFitYears AgoRiversDepthEdgesNineBelovedFour YearsShallowGlancesYoung ChildrenHer SmileSelf Contained Book:Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she's still the only person I want to talk to.” WantYearsPersonsStillsBeautifulGirlYears AgoNineBarsTonightNine YearsBeautiful Girl Book:About That Night Source: About That Night
“You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I’d vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn’t have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayYearsLittlesMadeStillsDifferentMomentsHomeWould BeRight NowYears AgoDeeperNineMade ItMy WayRoofNine YearsWay Home Author:Tiffanie DeBartolo
“I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.” LifeYearsEndsFeelingsEarthFormScienceUniverseThreeStarsSunGenerationsShareDyingStudentsPlanetsPrideYears AgoCookingBillionsNineSubstanceCentsCarbonInteriorsOxygenNinetySolar SystemNinety NineNitrogen Author:George Wald
“We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?” WantShouldYearsKindHardDiesCausesCitiesLibertyMillionsStreetsCarMassHundredSittingYears AgoWindowHorseTrainCancerOilLibertarianNineLibertarianismPollutionReplacedEightyFeverTransportationMcdonaldsAnklesSpeedingCity StreetsOld CarTyphoid Author:P. J. O'Rourke