30 Years Quotes

The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.

Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is ours, and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.

Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling, High in air wild birds are calling, Nature's solemn hymn.

I have been extremely fortunate to have incredibly special fans support my work throughout my twelve year career.

I think I'll got to Thailand for a year and become a Thai boxer. I'm gonna train for a year.

Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year.

When I was 7 years old, my father asked me a simple question. He said, 'do you want to see someone fly?' What 7 year old boy is gonna say no to that?

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

I take around 60 trips a year for business so I can't say that I enjoy the act of travelling itself. I wish I could be transported to my destination without having to go on the journey to get there.

The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete.

I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.

I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.

Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!

A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.

I think the fact that us as a race still continues to be very tribal and we haven't really moved away from that over hundreds and hundreds of years of experience.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize

You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

There have been more things wrong with England than just Wayne Rooney in the last few years.