30 Years Quotes

My approach to the races hasn't changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.

For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept

I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth, then I do balancing exercises.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.

I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?

Still sweet with blossoms is the year's fresh prime.

O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!

This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, Built as it has been in our waning years, A rest afforded to our weary feet, Preliminary to - the last retreat.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?