Sentences with phrase «years we spend living»

Some of my favorite childhood memories are of the couple of years we spent living on that farm - horses, gardening, chickens, outdoor shenanigans, and oddly enough a pie exactly like this one.

I feel like I wasted the three years I spent living there - definitely didn't do enough afternoon teas in beautiful places!

Taylor's knack of turning a dollar may derive from a formative teen - age year he spent living with his maternal grandfather, Charles Magee, a smalltime wheeler dealer who dabbled in Ottawa beer and real estate.

The impact of poverty is compounded by numerous other issues in a hostile asylum system, from the years spent living in dirty and poorly maintained asylum accommodation, to years of waiting in limbo in fear of being returned home whilst facing disbelief from Home Office officials.

Ms. Calcaterra, an aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, was interviewed by CBS news correspondent Susan Spencer about how she overcame a difficult childhood with an abusive mother and years spent living in foster homes.

I am partial to anything involving cherry blossoms as they bring back fond memories of my early years spent living in Japan.

The rest of the school year, children discover the Great Lessons, our Cosmic Education as designed by Dr. Maria Montessori during the years she spent living in India.

Her love of slow food and slow living was inspired during the two years she spent living with her husband and two children in northern Italy.

This was a common question for me, in the four years I spent living in DC.

Apart from the 2 years I spent living in Barcelona, Spain and 2 x 1/2 year living in the US (Texas, Utah, Minnesota) I have lived here my entire life and I am very fond of the city.

But in keeping my overall costs low by staying with friends volunteering, and employing some clever travel hacks, my cost of full - time travel was considerably less any full year I spent living a conventional life in Canada.

After a lovely childhood in Upstate New York and four years spent living my big city dreams in Brooklyn, I finally succumbed to my vagabond fantasies and bought a one way ticket out the country.

The year I spent living in Taiwan inspired and prepared me for a life of long - term travel.

But if she wants to be honest, and she does, that's roughly how it felt to Christine Wang during the year she spent living in Qatar.

If you're considering a composting toilet, you want practical information, so here's my advice to you, based on the three years I spent living in one... uh, I mean living in a house with one.

Homeowners who pay 400 dollars a month for utilities will pay $ 144,000 during the thirty years spent living in a typical suburban home.

Years spent living abroad inspired an interest in cross cultural dynamics and diversity.»

We learn by observing, doing and of course making mistakes, so it makes sense that the more years we spend living and learning the wiser we become.

Not exact matches

The last two years of my life, I spent a huge amount of time building a program for GE, where we've trained thousands of GE's top managers in the Lean Startup.

Donald Nolan is a New Jersey businessman who has spent years living and traveling overseas.

I sometimes say «why do you want to spend several years, and hopefully many more, of your life working on this problem.»

Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has spent the last two years struggling: to normalize life for her children, to get comfortable accepting the help of friends and family, to regain confidence at work, and to rediscover hope.

Like night - club hypnotists, e-commerce brands like Casper and Endy have persuaded consumers to perform an unthinkable act — order a mattress online, sight unseen, despite it being where they will spend a third of their lives for years to come — and turned another industry on its head.

Large companies and their boards live in fear of losing what they spent years gaining (customers, market share, revenue, profits.)

After getting inspired by Ron Chernow's biography of the first Treasury Secretary, Miranda spent six years of his life writing «Hamilton,» according to Fortune.

Finally, after having spent a small - fortune and many years of your life, the day comes for you to prep for the big journey.

Torrecillas and Brown originally from the U.S. and Canada and have been living abroad for four years now, and have spent the past year in Bali.

They ended up traveling for 18 months, and today, they've built a life that allows them the best of both worlds: half the year in a London flat and half of the year spent abroad, a lifestyle they chronicle on their website, Global Help Swap, and on their Instagram.

They lived in London, where Sargent was a business psychologist for a business - training company and Farrugia was working in retail — until they left it all behind to spend a year traveling from London through Asia by land.

Dave and I spent about six years living in Utah where Costa Vida is based, so we were already familiar with the franchise.

She had chosen the life of a crafter because she wanted to be close to her 5 - year - old son, but she felt as if she hadn't spent any meaningful time with him in months.

He says, «Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo [and achieves it]... But we spend years actually living those stories, and expect our lives to be meaningful.»

The average guest spent $ 703 for each wedding last year, with millennials (who are arguably more apt to be in that everyone - I - know - is - getting - married phase of life) shelling out even more, at an average $ 893 per celebration, according to the American Express Spending & Saving Tracker.

Whether it's being healthier, reaching financial goals or spending more time with loved ones, we make our New Year's resolutions in pursuit of the greatest reward: a happier, more fulfilled life.

Imagine the shock I received 14 years ago when my advisory council told me, in no uncertain terms, that without me they would leave the firm that I spent my life building and growing.

You've spent years working this job that hasn't been what you wanted for your life, but you smile because it's almost over.

The Malaysian - born portfolio manager has spent the past four years traversing the globe and has seen just how much these nations have grown up since she lived in Asia.

He spent the year living two weeks in Rome, then two weeks in California.

Hastings also shared that in 2005, when Netflix was a DVD - by - mail company and only operated in the US, he spent a year living half the time in Rome with his family.

If you're going to spend years of your life interacting with someone, be sure you give them a thorough evaluation.

I've spent my life in innovation, eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching it.

For a 110,000 barrel per day mine, each additional billion spent on start - up capital translates to about $ 525 - $ 560 billion million fewer taxes and royalties (in today's dollars) over the 40 year life of the project.

Summers, who spent 25 years as an automotive engineer, lives in an apartment around the corner from Pashak.

Spending a little extra to ensure you get a quality brush and a solid drip stand will greatly extend the life of your bristles for years of regular use.

He spent a year in the refugee camp before immigrating to British Columbia, where an uncle lived and he learned to speak English.

For Reynolds, who has spent five years and some $ 4.5 million, including most of his own savings, on his quest to change lives, do - or - die time is fast approaching.

The serial entrepreneur and investor, who serves on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, spent several years as a kid living in Tokyo and fueled a lifelong zest for travel, which his international consulting practice provides plenty of today.

Chappelle returned to a relatively steady stand - up comedy schedule a couple of years ago, and he spent the weekend performing six shows (two a night) as part of Austin City Limits Live.

The vast majority of us have to spend years of our lives going through this cyclical process of: learning, working, succeeding, failing... learning, working succeeding, failing, (repeat).

The title spent the first 18 years of its life in mixed case, and returned to it for a brief period in the early 1950s.