30 Years Quotes
A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.
If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.
Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain
TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.
Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.
Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.
There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.
I think a lot of people don't understand that when I sit out it's not because of this year. I'm thinking about long term. I'm thinking about after I'm done with basketball.
I'm not a suit and tie kind of guy. I wear a suit once a year, for the Hall of Fame, or if I have to go to a funeral or something. It's just not me.
In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know three, or at most five, kata.
The markets are the same now as they were five or ten years ago because they keep changing-just like they did then
Ten million years from now, when then sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen iceball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.
The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others - and they live apart for many years.
Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.
Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.
To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.
Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.
I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.
I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.
When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.
I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.
I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.
Within a few years the name 'Maria Sharapova' will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and Rolex.