30 Years Quotes
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.
If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.
After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.
I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!
I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.
It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.
This sort of dwindling band of true believers each year gets together and talks about the wonderful progress that's been made. None of the rest of us can ever see that.
Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?
Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.
When I was 3 years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me.
I've found increasingly less effectiveness with the man-on-the street type of stuff that was very standard fare for years. It can still be effective, but it's got to be done well.
Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.
Working out is a healthy habit: it helps you stay light and energetic. At least, that is how it works for me, and over the years it has been one of my greatest passions.
Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.
If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.
Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.
You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.
One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.
When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.
I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.
It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.
AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.
It is far easier to get divorced from somebody you've been married to for 10 years and have three children by than to fire somebody that's worked for you for one year.
More and more Congressmen now stay in Washington all year-round because they can't stay at home under the laws they've passed.
Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.
The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.
When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.
I could never have thought, "I wanna play a two-headed woman." That just never would have occurred to me, in a million years.
Drew is a player that comes along once every 20 years. Not even Barry Bonds can be compared to J.D. Drew.
My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.
My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music.
Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.
After years of struggling with how I looked, I'm pretty comfortable and proud of my body now.
After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.
Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.
I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.