30 Years Quotes

Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.

Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.

It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

Look back on your wedding And be filled with joy and pride Deservedly so, for the many years You've flourished, side by side

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.

I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.

Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

Success will (a.mel.io.rate), ameliorate all the years of your sadness.

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square. It's a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It's just a few Jews walking around going, "sup?"

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Sad to hear of Paul Scholes retirement! One of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership! Idolised him for years! Legend.

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.

Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.