Top 55 Last Few Years Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Last Few Years Quotes from famous people such as William Proxmire, Jack Kilby, Ernie Johnson Jr., Jimmy Carter, Claire Saffitz, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in

The last few years have been my happiest. I’m happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don’t feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.
William Proxmire
They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I’m not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.
Jack Kilby
I was a fan of the NCAA Tournament and watching when I could, but now I have files on over a 120 college teams that I have been building on over the last few years.
Ernie Johnson Jr.
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I’ve taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, ‘The Hornet’s Nest,’ I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.
Jimmy Carter
Even though they have long shelf lives, chemical leaveners will lose potency over time. If the only box of baking soda you have around is the one that’s been absorbing odors in your fridge for the last few years, it’s probably a good idea to get a new box just for baking.
Claire Saffitz
I’ve done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I’ve done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That’s been very disappointing.
Illeana Douglas
I feel oddly at peace with the ups and downs of pandemic life. They’re not too different from the ups and downs of deployment life, which I’ve experienced a lot the last few years as my husband, an Army Special Forces officer, has been overseas.
Brianna Keilar
I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that’s unfair.
Jane Alexander
For the last few years, I’ve enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I’ve grown up, I’ve realised how much I enjoy escaping into a world that I’ve created myself. So I’ve kept that up as a hobby.
Himesh Patel
The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.
Mark Hoppus
Over the last few years, I’ve started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them – not just here at the club but with the international team as well.
Robin Van Persie
Whether you like it or not, the last few years I’d be the first one to tell you I haven’t been the Pedro Martinez that I’m used to being.
Pedro Martinez
I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world – especially the world of downtown – is predominantly white.
Karan Mahajan
The last few years have been pretty hectic.
Frank Langella
Over the last few years, we have seen too many politicians disregard the Constitution as they voted to increase the size and scope of government. I will use my legal experience gained as a federal attorney to hold them accountable.
Matthew Whitaker
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
Steve Earle
If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
Gelett Burgess
We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.
Lee R. Raymond
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I’ve regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.
Jude Law
A lot of the stuff I’ve accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren’t good dance beats they weren’t ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.
Eric San
The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians’ minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world.
Jeff Goodell
I’ve been going to the same barber the last few years, and we have great chats whenever I’m in the chair. He’ll ask: ‘How you doing? How’s the training going?’ Just ordinary, obvious things, but then, like you do with your barber, you start talking about personal stuff.
Adam Peaty
I’ve been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.
Eric Stoltz
Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven’t listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don’t.
Ann Beattie
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
Ben Nicholson
Crafting covers so many areas and over the last few years, we have seen a real boom in the U.K. in terms of people adopting craft as a hobby.
Sara Davies
The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years.
George Crook
I’ve always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously I’m not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are.
Harry Kane
When I was at Doncaster Rovers Belles, I used to play up front or as a number 10, but when I joined Chelsea in 2015, I was more a midfielder, and over the last few years, I’ve moved into the back four.
Millie Bright
One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.
Patty Griffin
Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or 100 years. If you look for a biological thread throughout science fiction, you can find it, but it’s a very small percentage of the total. That’s been changing in the last few years.
Paul Di Filippo
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more

In the last few years I’ve been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
Serj Tankian
I can’t think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced them basically with three guys who really haven’t played in this league.
Isaiah Thomas
The Internet has improved a lot in the last few years, but still, you wouldn’t want to depend on Web sources for historical analysis. There’s just something hard to beat about a book.
Diana Gabaldon
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.
David Bowie
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years – first, the house that had been my grandmother’s since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.
Penelope Lively
I’ve picked up quite a few yellow cards in the last few years – a few reds, too. That was the case as a youth player as it is now. But I don’t see it as a problem. That’s how I play. If you take that away, then I wouldn’t be where I am now. So I don’t think the yellow cards or the red cards are too big of an issue.
Granit Xhaka
I’m desperate to enjoy my football again and play until I retire. Obviously I’m 34 so I don’t want to be sitting on the bench, I don’t want to be remembering my last few years of my career like that.
Rickie Lambert
After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.
Sheikh Hasina
It’s funny because, growing up, I found inspiration from watching Steffi Graf and Amanda Coetzer, a South African who was in the top 10 for many years. Oh, and then there’s someone I’ve gotten to know over the last few years: Martina Navratilova.
Kevin Anderson
I have spent my last few years training and aggressively becoming the best wrestler that I can and I will continue to do that but at the same time I’ve been in every major locker room of the professional wrestling world.
Brandi Rhodes
An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.
Christian Slater
Best two rock voices I’ve heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it’s Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.
Bruce Dickinson
Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself.
Todd Barry
For the last few years, it’s been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you’re in with the cool crowd, you can’t be happy.
Lenny Kravitz
In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.
John Stamos
We – again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.
Tavis Smiley
You gig and gig and wonder what your first Edinburgh show will be like, if people will like it, and when they do, it just feels like it validates the last few years of your life, and that you’re on the right track.
Rachel Parris