30 Years Quotes

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.

Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.

A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.

My eight-year-old bought a bicycle with the money he saved by not smoking.

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

Where are you originally from?” “The planet Lorien, three hundred million miles away.” “Must have been a long trip, John Smith.” “Took almost a year. Next time I’m bringing a book.

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie

It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.

I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer.

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.

If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Every year I want to experience something that makes me say, "this is the best day of my life."

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.

River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy, Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home, It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.