30 Years Quotes

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.

When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."

To be a nutritionist in France, you must be a doctor, seven years studies, and then three more years in nutrition.

Few years ago I did 30m in 3.7 seconds. Whether that makes me quicker than [Usain] Bolt, I don't know! We all know Usain is the best.

I didn’t have much school. Three years.

Now, with the Internet, you're either five years ahead or you're five years behind, and the music game is catchin' up right now.

When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

[John Calvin's] Humanist training makes him an excellent writer. What is more, he is as relevant today as he was 500 years ago.

I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

Ever since I came to the WWE four years ago, there's been one home for Rey Mysterio. SmackDown! In this ring, in this very ring is where I won the World Title. This is my home. These are my people.

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.

Even if you have done no wrong, no mistake in the last 50 years, remember the mistake you did 51 years ago and repent for it and become humble.

As long as I'm not taking a penalty we will be OK. But if it's like two years ago I will need a doctor.

She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.

I always had deep respect for my peoples 'cause of the love they gave me and the know how that they showed me through the years.

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

This (Coley's toxins) is really an effective treatment and it an OUTRAGEOUS crime of the century that we at MSK were able to cure cancer a 100 years ago that they can't cure today.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

I've got over three-hundred pairs of shoes back home - I'm twenty-four years old and I wear a size four, so all my shoes are just cheap.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.

I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.

These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a dream.

Actually, we did a fun April Fools' thing with Google a couple of years ago, which we called Virgle. And we looked for volunteers to go on a one-way trip to Mars.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

I did a film many years ago called The Man Without A Face.Gaby [Hoffmann] was in with Mel Gibson. That was his directing debut. He did a great job.

The adorably rubber-faced Ken James Stewart is jumping ship from the Shaw Festival after five years to play Charlie Brown

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.

There's a second component of a good savings plan, which is something that a colleague of mine called Schlomo Benartzi and I developed many years ago, that we call "save more tomorrow."

You can live a lifetime in two years.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

When you describe passion at any age, passion is derived from everything, from the people you work with to enjoying the last four years.