30 Years Quotes

O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

You don't need any skill to run.......Every 3-year old knows how to run

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.

We had a very good number of mayors participate this year. All the mayors rode out with regular volunteers as well as members of our advisory council and our board members.

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.

Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.

I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, guys. We bought ourselves another year".

I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.

I've definitely learned more about myself through experimentation over the years - which products work best for my skin and tricks from various makeup artists I've been lucky enough to work with.

I love skin care and actually wanted to be an esthetician for many years.

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.

This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.

Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

You know what's the rage this year? ...Hats.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn't hear them.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!

If people knew the kind things my mom has done for the community and for families over the years, I think that they would be stunned.