30 Years Quotes

Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.

Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

Why are we working so hard to preserve Iraq, a fake country to begin with? Why do we care whether this fake country that was drawn on the map 100 years ago remains?

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros.

I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.

Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

It has been a wonderful five years. I'm excited about the many projects we're working on as we move into year six, and I want to thank everyone for tuning in. We couldn't do it without you!

Hamburg is getting a new symbol with its new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall. Such an architecturally impressive building is built somewhere in the world maybe once every five years, if you're lucky.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

After dating for five years, my relationship with Irina Shayk has come to an end. We believed it would be best for both of us to take this step now. I wish Irina the greatest happiness.

When I was 66, my wife June died of cancer. Two years later--a year and a half ago--I married Kristen McMain, the eternal companion who now stands at my side.

I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.

I feel I can still do the same job as I did 10 years ago - I've just got a few more wrinkles!

I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!

Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.

Sarah Palin is an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she only was governor for what, two years. I don't think she passed that test.

Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.

It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.

If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy...

One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

I started going to castings a few years ago when people didn't know who I was. People forget about [that time] because they've seen my career - the path that it's had in the last couple years.

We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.