30 Years Quotes

I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .

I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.

Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President [Mikhail] Gorbachev and other Soviet officials.

Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.

The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

Why do all balls look like they're 150 years old?

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

Every year it's one more step closer, and then at the end you get to the top and you fall back down. It's crazy.

We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.

A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.

I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.

I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

I think I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll - I get back pain!

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

I had a good run here, fifteen years. That's a great run. I'm not saying that I'm done in center field - if I could play there forever, I would. But I know that's not reality, so I'm happy.

My career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me.

I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.

I want to stay with the Orioles. I'd like to play here for the rest of my career. I don't want to go through this again in four years.

But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I've learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.

It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.