30 Years Quotes

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

I wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years.

By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we first got here. And I'm hopeful we'll build on the progress we've made in the years to come.

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.

Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

I think it was 37 years that I did music.

Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.

We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.

Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that’s when things changed as far as going to the NFL.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.

The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.

I was in a convent for a year.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.

You’ve never been to school, ever? If that’s true—and you’re right, I don’t think it is—what made you decide to come this year?” “You.

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music.

I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

I have never had a NY resolution. While you wait each year to make a resolution you never commit to, I get it done everyday.

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.

Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.