30 Years Quotes

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

You can't magic yourself back 10 years.

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.

The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.

It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.

My mother, she smiles when I come around now. My daughter's eatin' decent meals and she's in private school. She's 4 years old. She started school. It's a beautiful thing.

I don't watch any films. Billy Elliot is the only film I've seen in the last 25 years. Oh, and ET. Both of which I loved!

This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.

For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.

For years I've had neurological problems. I used to shake a lot and I was on medication - I paid about $700,000 for one year of pills. I was taking 40-odd different ones a day.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

I envision some years from now that the majority of search queries will be answered without you actually asking. It'll just know this is something that you're going to want to see.

I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.

In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

For 40 years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.

During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.

I may drive in a few races next year if someone needs a substitute driver ... (but) if I were never to drive again, I have had a great career.

Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.